toolbar icons

[David Nolden]

Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 19:44:27 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> See:
> http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev4_initial_icontext_noarea.png
Yes that looks much better.

> I've reduced the text to be not much larger than the icons and removed
> the area-toolbuttons. Then resized the whole thing to show the 5
> most-used actions and have more space on the context browser.
> I think at this point there's no way to get out more space except by
> removing actions or as you suggest removing the text.
In icon-only mode the icons are much smaller, so it's not exactly equal.

> Hmmm, would it be an option to simply move the main toolbar to the left
> side? I'm not sure at the moment wether it looks just ugly or wether I'd
> need to get acustomed to it. But it could solve this discussion, as
> usually horizontal space is often easier available than vertical. Of
> course this again gets a problem if you're opening one of the left
> toolviews...
>
> Screenshot:
> http://www.apaku.de/vardata/kdev4_initial_icontext_noarea_toolbarleft.png
>
> Thoughts?
Hmm the icons are not important enough to waste such an amount of space.

So I gues we should just continue finishing up KDevelop, and then at some 
point when we actually have a useful set of toolbar actions, we can do polls 
to decide how the default UI should look like.

Greetings, David