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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Usability of the Rediculous KWin RMB icons :)
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-12 5:16:29
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Right click on a kwin titlebar and you'll see two useful features: Always On 
Top and Store Settings.  Problem is is that some decided to be cute about it 
and give them icons.  Well, I'm sorry, but what a paperclip have to do with 
always being on top?  Maybe a magnet or something...

The real problem I have with it is is users like me which have a 30 second 
attention span.  I enable the option, then 45 seconds right click on the 
window to enable the option, because I don't remember if I did.  There's no 
checkmark next to it, how do I know if it's on?  Well, I don't, I trade in 
some useful functionality for an *icon*.  I hope this is the first-- and last 
time we'll do that :)

So, two options:

(easy) Remove the Icon :)
(hard) Put a "sunk-in" frame around the icon, if there's is icon, when the 
option is enabled, and use a checkmark for when there is no icon.

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