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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: new kdm looks horrible
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-12-04 6:08:56
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On Tuesday December 03, 2002 09:56, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Is it just me or is the new KDM horribly off-balance and miscentered
> by default?  I have a huge box of users listed on the left side and
> the login box on the right side.
>
> My default KDM on Mandrake 8.x on the other hand is nicely centered.
>
> Assuming it's not my set up, we really ought to fix this.  A big
> revert UI-wise looks desireable for the short term.

How does an imbalance impact usability in this case?  You might be right (I 
don't use kdm and haven't seen KDE 3.1 kdm), but looking ugly is not the 
same as looking unusable.

Perhaps it can be made easier to use without a revert.  It's too late for 
3.1, and the 3.2 development just started, so there is no urgency.

Ooh, idea:  Maybe the box should be made configurable.  Some systems might 
not want the list of users to be displayed, and it'd be a lot easier just 
to remove the box completely, than to list every user in the list of users 
to hide.
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
Delenda est Carthago
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