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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The handle arrows in kicker (was kicker applets usability)
From:       Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-12-12 16:42:41
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Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2001 17:01 schrieb Craig Drummond:
> Hmm... What's the point of having lots of eye-candy (which KDE seems to
> be getting more and
> more of), if it starts cluttering up the screen
> with ugly hacks? And surely GUIs should also be
> attractive - else wht have themes?

Whether or not something is ugly is subjective, so please excuse me for not 
really considering "I think it's ugly" an argument for or against some 
feature.

> I can agree with all of this - but it still looks
> horrible. I also dislike the tear-off menu stuff,
> again this just looks nasty - I hated it when I
> saw it on Gtk apps, and thought "thank god KDE
> doesn't do that"... I still can't think of a
> signel good reason for tear of menus - they take
> up screen and kicker space...
>
> Still, I'd like options to remove this. But I can
> also see KDE getting *way* to many options for
> stuff like this...

AFAICS this all comes down to "I think it looks horrible", and that case gets 
covered by my above statement. I am not convinced that the arrows should be 
removed, and I do not think that they should be part of any theme and/or 
configurable via KControl.

> > P.S.: I'd really appreciate it if you (Craig) could adjust your email
> >
> > client's configuration so that it doesn't use those ugly linebreaks.
>
> Sorry I'm using a web-based email client - so I
> can't configure this...

Yikes, I feel the pain. :-}

- Frerich

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