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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Suggestion for Kicker....
From:       "Peter Thorstenson" <swede () openlink ! com ! br>
Date:       2000-04-19 18:58:53
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OK, I have read the different solutions. I think that if no one 
likes my idea with an option for first or last bit of the text, then 
I prefer the variant with "..." in the middle. Is there space enough 
for this BTW? :)   

>My 2 cents:
>
>I like the "..." in the middle suggestion. I think implementing a
>bazillion modes is wrong (really, who is going to reset it to first or
>last characters?) and animation in the taskbar is certainly wrong,
>precisely because what dep mentioned.
>
>Anyways, that's my opinion.
>
>dep wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Chris Lee wrote:
>> 
>> | I remember that if a titlebar in KWM was too small to display the
>> | full text, the title would scroll back and forth. Could this be
>> | implemented in both KWin and Kicker? I'll take a crack at the
>> | sources myself when I get some free time (which won't be for a few
>> | days yet, so somebody else should get to it first...)
>> 
>> wow. can you imagine a half-dozen kicker entries, all busily animated
>> with long path/filenames zipping back and forth? that would be enough
>> to drive a person crazy.<g> if this gets implemented, *please*
>> implement autohide first!
>> 
>> --
>> dep
>> __
>> 
>> if everybody believes it
>> it's probably not true.
>
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>Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
>http://www.mosfet.org - The place for KDE development news.
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