From kde-usability Sun Nov 09 18:07:25 2003 From: Henrique Pinto Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 18:07:25 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Toolbars X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106840148220693 Hi! IMO, one of the biggest usability quirks of KDE is the toolbar layout of most apps. Consider, for example, Konqueror. It's default toolbar contains way too many icons (most of which are never used by average users), all of these being incredibly small. Most users assume toolbars contain quick links to the most used functionallity of an app. Right now, most of our apps contain much more options than needed, and, because of default settings, they aren't really "quick links", as it's difficult to find and click them. Based on Fitt's Law, I believe the better approach is using larger icons as default (32x32), with text at the bottom. Enabling this at KDE right now, however, will bring you more problems than solutions, since some text labels are incredibly long (and translations don't help, either), and most buttons end up hidden because of lack of space. My proposal here is to discuss ways by which toolbars can get better, and implement these after the release of KDE 3.2 (It is madness to try to do that for 3.2, IMO). Comments? -- Henrique Pinto stampede@uai.com.br _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability