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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Konqueror design proposal
From:       Roland Riegel <roland.riegel.maillist () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-02-18 14:06:35
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Hi!

Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2002 22:25 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> > 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
> > vertical text instead because tabs *normally* have text, not icons.  You
> > know, like in that Internet Explorer for Mac OSX.  This way the tabs
> > would be longer and look more like tabs.
>
> Do that and you'll be surprised how many people feel annoyed by reading
> vertical text (definately more than 10% which is a lot).
>
> Besides that: the number of modules that are installed is not static (they
> are modules so you can't count on the fact that the number will be limited
> to 6 or whatever modules). Keeping that in mind (and the fact that some
> languages do use quite long words) you'll run soon into the problem of
> missing vertical space for all the text. That's why the current solution
> (icons) was chosen.
>
> Regards,
>  Tackat

Yes, in the meantime I was told that these buttons are tabs. But couldn't 
this be done a bit clearer?
I see that vertical text is a no-no, and I myself wouldn't like that, but the 
tabs look atm very much like buttons. Maybe this could be done better by 
rounding off the right hand button corners, as most "normal" tabs have this. 
But I understand that this is kind of a graphics / programming overhead.

Thanks for your time,
Roland

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