From kde-look  Sun Feb 17 21:25:51 2002
From: Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:25:51 +0000
To: kde-look
Subject: Re: Konqueror design proposal
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-look&m=101398111124268


> I got to admit, those tabs do look different than any others I've seen,
> probably because they are so small.  I would probably rather have verti=
cal
> text instead because tabs *normally* have text, not icons.  You know, l=
ike
> in that Internet Explorer for Mac OSX.  This way the tabs would be long=
er
> and look more like tabs.

Do that and you'll be surprised how many people feel annoyed by reading=20
vertical text (definately more than 10% which is a lot).
=20
Besides that: the number of modules that are installed is not static (the=
y are=20
modules so you can't count on the fact that the number will be limited to=
 6=20
or whatever modules). Keeping that in mind (and the fact that some langua=
ges=20
do use quite long words) you'll run soon into the problem of missing vert=
ical=20
space for all the text. That's why the current solution (icons) was chose=
n.=20

Regards,
 Tackat

> Regards,
> Henry