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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kmix -> kdebase
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-06-21 21:29:15
Message-ID: 200506211529.23271.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 21 June 2005 08:58, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Ironic that you plan to make it possible to place applets on the desktop
> and write them in Python and whatnot and you don't dare to make them take
> up only as little space as systray icons :).

heh .. well, the panel is space constrained. and python is orthogonal to # of 
pixels consumed ;)

> Besides, kmixapplet here 
> actually takes about as much space as a systray icon, and it shows two
> channels, which is two more than the systray icon.

yeah, if you kill the other 2^N channels =)

that icon is still pretty well known and is a nice compat interface. to make 
the kmix applet as obvious would require adding some sort of visual cue that 
says "audio" really obviously. i'm not really sure the kmix applet does that. 
the icons it uses are also tiny and ugly. =(

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Aaron J. Seigo
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