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Subject: Re: [Patch] System Settings : Improve General/Advanced tabs visibility
From: "Michael Biebl" <mbiebl () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-03-27 0:45:49
Message-ID: aa76cdac0803261745j2b8c16dfy189e19a2447bf1c5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/3/26, Torsten Rahn <torsten.rahn@credativ.de>:
>
> Now the first version that Nicolas came up with increased the text size,
> boldness, added icons, increased the "hit size" of the tabs and I'm convinced
> that he would have added sound cues to it if it would have been easy enough
> to do it (of course I'm exaggerating with the latter).
> This resulted in a "General/Advanced - tab" appearance that was equally or
> more prominent than other clearly more important and more clicked items which
> get displayed by the settings dialog as well. This is bad because over-usage
> of bold/large/icon-accompagnied labels is one of the reasons that KDE gets
> often criticized for clutter. If every item gets its icon and bold/large
> font then the usage of these markups is defeated and you get a clutterful
> look where every item on the screen tries to punch into your face in a fight
> for more visibility.
>
I'm totally with Thorsten here.
TBH, I find the old SystemSettings look much better. The new one is
just ugly and visually distracting.
Michael
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