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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 4.2 Toolbars
From:       "Branan Riley" <branan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-13 20:49:55
Message-ID: cad96db0811131249s12094793l853ff19ad23a539d () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Florian <florianmerz@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 13 November 2008 21:08:00 schrieb Maciej Pilichowski:
>> > Florian:
>> >
>> > Am Mittwoch 12 November 2008 19:11:53 schrieb Maciej Pilichowski:
>> > > > Nuno Pinheiro:
>> > > > 2 Saves precious vertical space.
>> > >
>> > > and waste (even more precious ;-) ) horizontal space.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to enable the text for each icon individually? If
>> > this is possible one could iterate over all icons from left to
>> > right and calculate for each icon if the text can be displayed for
>> > this icon without having to hide another icon completely. If it is
>> > possible the text will be displayed, otherwise the icon will be
>> > displayed without text.
>>
>> This would lead to over-smart app, and I am in general against such
>> app, because it tries hard to anticipate what is best for user and it
>> is close to just randomly choosing (we don't know what are the user
>> wishes).
> Right  now, if there is not enough space, the application hides all icons
> starting with the rightmost one. With my proposal, the application hides the
> text of the icons, starting with the rightmost one. Only if that is not enough
> will it start to hide the icons themselves. I don't think that behaviour is
> less predictable than the current behaviour.

It may be more predictable for icons to vanish jut because that's what
people are used to. But I don't think it would be a very difficult
change to adapt to (I have no usability experience, though).

I personally would rather see the text go away than the icons.

Branan
 
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