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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-03-26 4:15:56
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mosfet wrote:
> 
> Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, CVS by mosfet wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop laptopclient.cpp,1.1,1.2 laptopclient.h,1.1,1.2
> > > Author: mosfet
> > > CVSROOT: /home/kde
> > > Sat Mar 25 22:37:49 MET 2000
> > > Update of /home/kde/kdebase/kwin/clients/laptop
> > > In directory zeus:/tmp/cvs-serv14149
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >       laptopclient.cpp laptopclient.h
> > > Log Message:
> > > Trying to make the titlebar buttons easier to hit on laptops by increasing the
> > > width. The issue here is I want to make the buttons as wide as possible for
> > > laptop mice without having the titlebar be all buttons and no title ;-) My
> > > solution so far is making the common buttons bigger and the uncommon ones
> > > smaller. It's not consistent but let's me make the areas frequently hit
> > > wide as hell, which is good for a laptop :) Close, iconify, and maximize are
> > > larger - sticky and help are smaller.
> >
> > If I'm not daring too much with these two suggestions ...
> >
> > Do you have a laptop? It's almost never left or right targets that are
> > difficult to hit. It's upper and lower.
> 
> Sure, but screens are small and horizontal resolution is bigger then
> vertical so I can use more space in that direction.
> 

Hmm, sorry to respond to my own post but I should probably explain this
a little more. I have gotten two contradictory requests for a laptop
oriented style. The first is for people who have them in low res and
that is for a smaller titlebar. Many people's laptops are still in
800x600 or even 640x480 (ugh). The second is for people who have bad
pointing devices and that is to have easily clickable button areas. The
two contradict each other :(

The best way I could think of to support both is the small titlebar with
wide buttons, and of course a huge shaped resize handle ;)

> >
> > A technology Apple used to use (if I don't just dream right now) was the
> > non-visible enhanced targets. I.e., the hot widget gets an "escort", a
> > hidden widget a bit (or more) larger than the visible one. Not easy to
> > create, but really helpful for many places in KDE (like outmost pixel row
> > in kicker, links in a crammed-font HTML page.
> >
> > Cristian
> 
> The problem with that is outside the buttons are the frame, which has a
> different function.
> 
> --
> Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
> http://www.mosfet.org - The place for KDE development news.
> mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
> mosfet@kde.org

-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
http://www.mosfet.org - The place for KDE development news.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org

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