Reviewing Plasma themes

[Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)]

On Monday 12 April 2010, 12:57 Aleksey Alekseyev wrote:
> The primary problem with categories is there are quite a lot of them,
> and presenting a very long list in a horizontal "strip" is bad,
> because you have to scroll a lot (especially with how scrolling that
> list is handled in 4.4) and you can't scan it at a glance. Having so
> many categories and making it hard to explore and navigate the list of
> them defeats their purpose
> 
> The list of widgets makes in its current form makes it hard to both
> explore the widgets you have and finding one particular widget you
> need at the moment. Exploring the widgets is inconvenient, because you
> have to mouse-over every one of them to read what they are doing.
> Finding a particular widget is hard, because the icons are not always
> self-explanatory (and sometimes several widgets share icons) and text
> with the name of the widget is in small font (and again, sometimes you
> need to re-check the description to be sure that this widget is the
> one you're looking for) and gets clipped for long names..

I don't see how the old widgets explorer was better in managing this 
issues...actually, in most of them it was worse.

> Just yesterday I spent several minutes looking for widget which helps
> me post images/texts to the internet. It wasn't in "Internet and
> services" category, its icon didn't catch my eye and scanning widgets
> by their names is not possible with current layout. Finally I started
> thinking "Wait, how is the site I post text to is called... yes,
> pastebin!", then typed "pastebin" in the search box and finally found
> the widget I needed

This is a problem with the pastebin plasmoid, and that will be fixed when the 
new one comes out.


Cheers!

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Artur Duque de Souza
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INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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