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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: Smaller widgets
From:       Andreas Krogh <andreak () xcon-data ! no>
Date:       1999-10-18 12:20:36
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I think it's not a question of what GUI style is more compact. Its
rather a question of modifying the existing styles IMO. Windows-style
widgets take more space than "in Windows".
I can think of GTK. Its menues , f.ex. are more "compact".

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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@xcon-data.no>

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthias Ettrich [SMTP:ettrich@troll.no]
> Sent:	18. oktober 1999 14:01
> To:	kde-devel@kde.org
> Subject:	Re: Smaller widgets
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 12:20:43PM +0200, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > > >Is there a way in KDE/Qt to get "smaller widgets". I, among
> others,
> > > >believe that they take up way too much space on the screen. Is
> there a
> > > >reason for the the menues(itmes) beeing so big?
> > > Just set a smaller Font :-)
> > 
> > You know perfectly well that's not the issue. I think it's been an
> issue for
> > KDE since the early beginning that there's a lot of empty space
> around the
> > text in all widgets, even with smaller fonts.
> 
> Never heard this one before. The main complain with missing geometry
> management
> was that sometimes widgets are not big enough to cover all contents (
> over-long
> labels, for example).
> 
> Are there any commonly used GUI styles that are compacter than
> Windows? Motif,
> for example. was a _real_ space killer compared to what we currently
> do with
> KDE.
> 
> Matthias

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