[Panel-devel] [PATCH] Smaller toolbox with icons

Craig Duquette cduquette at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 05:47:10 CET 2007


It appears the oxygen folks made us a nice plasma application icon.
What do you guys think of using it instead of the wrench?



On 12/28/07, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> I love the 'more stylish' buttons as shown earlier in this thread. Also of
> course icons on buttons make it beautiful and easier to spot some function.
>
> On Friday 28 December 2007 23:32:35 Craig Duquette wrote:
> > Wouldn't there be a ton of whitespace potentially though?
> >
> > For example:
> > ICON "OMG look a large action description!!"
> > ICON "Zoom in"
> > even if they were the same size it wouldn't look that great.
>
> The developer that chooses such a long title for a button should get a kick
> in
> the ass anyway. :-)
> OTOH, filling up the whitespace makes for better alignment and is almost
> certainly easier on the eye. Wades comments from a while back on the
> alignment of the widgets in kickoff is also true in this place.
>
> > I still like the central QLabel idea, but I'd like to know Aaron's
> > opinions on the subject.
> --
> sebas
>
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