From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 19 06:57:43 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:57:43 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Kuickshow's UI
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On Friday 19 July 2002 01:11, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Christian Lavoie
>
> > On July 18, 2002 06:45 pm, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > IMO it's a different issue. KView shouldn't resize its window. It's
> > > not friendly to the user. If you view a small image, you can't see
> > > the toolbar icons. If you view a large image, kview fills the
> > > desktop. That's just rude.
> >
> > That's just a 'sane min/max' problem, not really an objection to
> > auto-resize.
>
> No, I object to auto-resize on behalf of less experienced users.
>
> I have watched such users deal with applications that resize themselves.
> They all seem to find such behaviour annoying and confusing.
>
> Is there evidence to the contrary ?

Yes, this (part of the) tread is started because people found KView unusabl=
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since it does not auto-resize since a couple of weeks anymore.

I myself find KView unusable for that fact alone.

Users always find problems with the software we make, get used to it and on=
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look at the difference in productivity and comments between a couple of=20
solutions.  Hmm, I think thats called user-testing :)

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