toolbar icons

[David Nolden]

Am Donnerstag 06 August 2009 08:48:09 schrieb Niko Sams:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 22:06, Aleix Pol<aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:58 PM, David Nolden
> >
> > <david.nolden.kdevelop at art-master.de> wrote:
> >> Now with the new quickopen- and context-browser stuff, it becomes more
> >> and more apparent that the default mode for icons in the kdevelop
> >> toolbar should
> >> be "Icons Only".
> >>
> >> I'm getting tired of seeing wasty screenshots like this
> >> http://frinring.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/binspektpart-in-kdevelop.png
> >> in
> >> the internet. The default UI should be better than that, something like
> >> this
> >> http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8485/kdev4uinew.png, just with some
> >> additional more useful icons.
> >>
> >> Other toolbar modes waste tons of vertical space, which is not
> >> acceptable in a
> >> productivity-oriented IDE, and they also waste a lot of horizontal
> >> space, which is used much better by the context-browser and quickopen
> >> line.
> >>
> >> So what do you think?
>
> IMHO we should keep the text as it's a global kde setting.
> But we need to create a good default set of buttons.

That doesn't mean we have to obey it. The default KDE application is not an 
IDE, so those globals don't have to be tailored against our needs. We should 
build the best possible default UI.

So we have to answer the question: Does it make sense to show text with each 
toolbar icon in an IDE, while the same space could be used for showing the 
function you're currently editing instead?

Does it make sense to waste vertical space that could be used to show one more 
line of code in the editor instead?

Which increases the productivity more? To me the answer is clear.

Greetings, David