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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets?
From:       Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       1999-05-14 19:18:37
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Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > Hey great -- so why should we stay with docking when it isnīt necessary
> > anymore?
> [snip]
> > So what? Whereīs the real difference?
> [snip]
> > I fear that it will be very confusing to have both ...
> > And if one of them is superfluous wouldnīt it be much better to drop it?
> NoNoNoNo.  Options are a Good Thing(tm).  Some reasons why docking has a place
> outside of applets:

and useless Options lead to Bloatware(TM), confusion, ... .
 
> 1) Docking is more intuitive for Windows users.  There is no real equivalent
>    to applets in Windows but there *are* docked apps.

O.k., why donīt we copy everything from Windows98 to make sure they feel
at
home? I would also suggest to copy all nifty OS/2, Mac and Beos-features
to 
make everybody feel at home. 
Comeon -- if we donīt want KDE to become obvious bloatware we have to
drop 
features that are superfluous and have no real advantage over superior 
implemented features!  

I think Ex-Windows-users wonīt have any difficulties when discovering
that 
a program can run in the panel and can become something more than an
icon.
But they will be irritated if you can do it in two ways which look quite
similar are called different and act somehow similar and somehow not ...

> 2) Docking takes up much less space.  I generally have 3 KBiffs, 1 Kscd, 1

NOT TRUE, the smallest GNOME APPLET is only about five or six pixels
wide: It 
shows a vertical floppy disk to mount such a device.

> 3) Docking is more intuitive for indicators from a human-machine interface
>    point of view.

Who said that? You can do the same things with applets as with docking
(it can even look the same) -- but applets can do more ...So why should 
this be more intuitive? 

BTW: Did you already have a look at GNOME-applets -- Iīm not sure if
weīre 
talking about the same thing ...

Torsten

> --
> Kurt Granroth            | granroth@kde.org
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth
>          KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux

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