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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: icon zooming
From:       Sean Pecor <sean () digitalspinner ! com>
Date:       2001-02-19 19:24:09
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On Tuesday 20 February 2001 13:52, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> Personally I think the 'small' kicker setting looks best.  I have a 21
> inch monitor at 1152x864 and small looks really clean.
> When a 1024x768 user installs he must say "Gezz this taskbar
> is big".  Anyone have any feelings on this?

I've got a 19" Viewsonic and 1024x768 is the highest I can deal with. Larger 
resolutions lack fonts that are easy to read without getting crunchy looking. 
Does anyone have suggestions? Helvetica looks terrible at > 12 pts. So does 
Arial, and just about any other Sans Serif font I've downloaded. 

12 point fonts at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor give me a headache in 10 minutes 
flat. It's not the monitor's fault either; it's a Viewsonic E790B which has 
exceptionally good clarity. Perhaps a 21" at 1600x1200 would look nice with a 
good 16 point font. Again, any suggestions? I'd like the extra pixel estate, 
but I don't fancy migraines.

I have two kicker panels running at all times. The bottom kicker is Normal 
because it contains my task bar and I need two rows for my open tasks. The 
task bar hogs 90% of the bottom panel, the rest goes to a kmix master volume 
slider, my system tray and the clock. A Tiny panel with a task bar is only 
one row of tasks and I can't handle that (all I see are the little icons).

The secnod kicker panel is set to Tiny and is just above the other panel, and 
contains a horizontal list of icons. Left to right are: KDE Menu, Konqueror, 
Desktop Access, Home Directory, Kwrite, Kmail, KOrganizer, Gimp, IglooFTP, 
KAB, Netscape and Konsole. Also on this panel is a Quick Access to my music 
directory, so I can play one song if I feel so inclined. 

I tried the news ticker in this panel, but it was too distracting. Otherwise, 
it was pretty damn cool.

Sean.

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