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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kcontrol proposal - screenshot
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-18 1:50:40
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On Tuesday 17 September 2002 06:28 pm, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> Je Lundo, la 16a de Septembro 2002 04:56 pm, Aaron J. Seigo skribis:
> > fewer words is good, and we probably don't have to change _all_ of them
> > to single words, right?
>
> I think the rule of "fewer words = more usable" applies until you get down
> into the range of a very small number of words, at which point the loss of
> meaning from removing words outweighs the benefits of having less to read.
>
> Or perhaps:  I think I read [1] once that people don't read
> one-word-at-a-time, but rather your eye grabs "chunks" of text at a time,
> which leads me to think that two medium-length words are no harder to scan
> than a single word.

Well, a problem is that "Appearance & Themes" is rather a large phrase so 
either the panel at the left needs to become a lot wider or phrases like this 
get wrapped into
Appearance &
   Themes

Note also that it are all multi-syllable words.

It just doesn't look good, screenshots here:
ftp://upload.kde.org/incoming/unstable/KDE3.x/kcontrol_names_1.png
ftp://upload.kde.org/incoming/unstable/KDE3.x/kcontrol_names_2.png
ftp://upload.kde.org/incoming/unstable/KDE3.x/kcontrol_names_3.png

Cheers,
Waldo
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