From kde-devel  Thu May 13 17:54:02 1999
From: Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:54:02 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:37:25AM +1000, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> > Well, it would be a shame to lose a feature like this because there are
> > not enough icons to go around. In the worst case, the less commonly used
> > actions just won't have an associated custom icon, and the user will have
> > to provide one (and if it is good enough, could go into the library of
> > custom icons) or use the default icons. A lot of these icons will be
> > duplicated across applications anyway, which is a good thing.
> 
> in case there is no icon - why not just open a KColorChooser and let it
> make a simple one-coloured icon? So you can easily make 
> "red button = extrude_square_and_apply_bevel", 
> "green button = "that_other_option_down_in_three_submenus", ...

O.k., this would look 2.5% less unfinished and  halfimplemented than having 
no icon.

Ahem, what is the advantage of icons? Hmmm, and what do you 
loose with your solution? -- Exactly! -- Got it?

Sorry, couldn't resist ...
Cheers,
Torstem

> Cheers,
> Carsten Pfeiffer
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