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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New kwin style update
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-09-13 21:33:34
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Okay, I've used QNX before and I could of swore it had 4. I understand
your point tho.

My main thing was that having a round button next to the icon looked odd
(I tried it). But now I'm thinking for sticky perhaps we don't even need
to have the same round style buttons like the other ones. Perhaps it
should actually be part of the frame that you "stick down". A little
bevel next to the icon and title text that looks like part of the
titlebar itself that you can press down and attach the window to the
desktop. I think this would be cool :)



Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I can think of a couple GUI's like that, ie : Photon.
> >
> > >
> > > Tackat
> 
> Photon usually does have 3 buttons on the right (at least in all
> screenshots
> I have seen). Where did you see 5 buttons?
> 
> The KDE1-style was actually great because it was very nice in terms of
> usability. In the KDE1-style the most important buttons which were
> used most of the time were put on the right side (where they are
> fast and easy to reach for right-handed people). And the buttons which
> are being used far less often are on the left side. -- Simple.
> Therefore navigating the mouse to the right side was a safe guess
> and then you had to make a choice between three items only.
> 
> If you have to choose between several items the time you need to choose
> depends on the number of items -- and this additional time for every
> additional item increases heavily with the number of items. So it
> takes much more time for users to make a choice between 4 items than for
> 3.
> 
> Same applies for remembering (and describing) positions. The more
> items you have the harder it becomes to remember (/describe)
> 
> - which items are there and
> - how they are arranged
> 
> For three buttons you can still remember(/describe) positions
> in terms of "left", "middle", "right" -- easy.
> from 4 buttons on you have to do things like
> "it's-the-second-button-from-the-right" (or was it the
> "second-button-from-the-left"?).
> 
> Well if you can't resist from putting everything on the right then
> put at least a seperator between (Help/) Sticky and the other three
> buttons.
> 
> Tackat

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