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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: While were making controversial suggestions... ;)
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-29 0:18:08
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Err, David - I think you should of read your mail better... This thread
is about the default KWin style plugin!

David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 07:02:08PM -0500, mosfet wrote:
> > Okay, Michael. We are now all aware that you don't believe in fitt's
> > law.
> 
> What an easy way to dismiss a mail full of very valid arguments ! :-}
> 
> > Nonetheless many of us do and Kurt's complaint is a valid one.
> 
> And I for one foresee the very bad effect such a default would have on KDE.
> I haven't taken part of the discussion up to now because I have no arguments
> to advance, like numbers, laws, or anything you can try to find to make your
> point valid with pseudo-scientific arguments.
> KDE 1 didn't have mac menubar as default, and IMHO KDE 2 should
> definitely not have it either.
> 
> All the arguments against it are valid IMHO:
> - not consistent (with other apps, with KDE 1, with what people are most used to, etc.)
> - today's screens are bigger, and YES distance counts, be it only for the eyes
>  (I can't look everywhere on the screen at the same time)
> - the association between the app and its menubar, instead of scattering them
> to two different locations on the screen
> - being able to click on an inactive app's menubar
>  (doing two things at the same time, activating the app and opening the menu).
> etc.
> Damn, I said I wouldn't go into giving arguments :).
> Anyway, I really think this would be a huge mistake.
> 
> David.
> 
> --
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://home.clara.net/faure/
> KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
> See http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html for how to set up KDE 2

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