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Subject: Re: Toolbars
From: William Leese <william () leese ! nl>
Date: 2003-11-09 19:22:24
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Henrique Pinto wrote:
>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).
>
Something to consider would be forming smalls logical groups of buttons,
seperating them by using sufficient spacing.
[a][b][c][d][e][f][g][h][i][j][k][l] is a whole lot harder to use than
[a][b][c][d] [e][f][g][h] [i][j][k][l]
- William Leese
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