KDE 4.2 Toolbars

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:18:18, Matthias Fuchs escreveu:
> Nuno Pinheiro schrieb:
> > A Wednesday 12 November 2008 21:48:29, Matthias Fuchs escreveu:
> >> Nuno Pinheiro schrieb:
> >>> Well some time ago I sudgested to Celeste  that we should use in the
> >>> thoolbars text along side icons instead of text under icons. Couse:
> >>> [...]
> >>> 2 Saves precious vertical space.
> >>
> >> That is true, but keep in mind that if you do not run your apps in
> >> fullscreen horizontal space becomes more important. I would have to try
> >> it if there are apps where that would pose a problem.
> >>
> >> One would be the German version of Akregator, because of the long text:
> >>
> >> "Fetch Feed" = "Nachrichtenquelle abholen"
> >> "Mark Feed as Read" = "Nachrichtenquelle als gelesen markieren"
> >> ...
> >
> > a side note I consider important text along side does not make all that
> > of a difrence it just hads 26 pixels if the text is "Nachrichtenquelle
> > als gelesen markieren" the icon is the least of your concern as space
> > wasting goes...
>
> I think Aaron's right here that it mostly is a problem of Akregator.
>
> But what I'm trying to explain is that in some cases you loose a lot
> more than you gain. I know that there should be _one_ default-setting
> and not multiple per-apps settings, though that future-default setting
> should be elaborated a lot before it becomes default.
>
> I added two screenshots just to illustrate the difference for Akregator.
> Yes I know that's not a good example, but we have to *find* such
> examples to fix them. That is something where localization and ui-layout
> are a part of the problem as well as of the solution.
yep i agrea
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