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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Clock prefs .ui
From:       Michael Pye <mp () fuckmicrosoft ! com>
Date:       2002-08-26 19:38:02
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On Monday 26 August 2002 8:26 pm, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> Some food for thought: Aren't we just trying to force 3 clock applets into 
> one? Code-sharing issues not-withstanding, shouldn't there be 3 clock 
applets 
> (digital/normal, analog, fuzzy), something which would remove ALL (if I am 
> not mistaken) widget disabling and adding/removing?
> 
> The fuzzy clock doesn't need date/hour font settings (but possibly font 
> settings for its sentences), the analog clock doesn't need fonts at all, the 
> other ones don't care for antialiasing, etc.
> 
> Shouldn't this be three applets, even if it's really only one .so file that 
> has a couple of different GUIs, selecting the user-preferred one depending 
on 
> what applet kicker is telling it it is?

I don't know. I quite like the centralised control, and I think we are 
approaching a fairly reasonable dialogue now. I agree it's not perfect (yet! 
;P ) but I think it's a lot better than the current one from a usability / 
confusability point of view and probably better than three conpletely 
seperate ones.

Just my thoughts.
-- 
MP
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