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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Toolbars
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () uai ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-11-09 19:45:55
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Hi!

I've just noticed that
http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=Toolbar+Review
contains the beggining of exactly what I was thinking. A List of both 
general and specific issues concerning toolbars in KDE applications.

My "plan" is to complete that list (with your help) and then make a 
complete proposal regarding those issues to kde-core-devel (or 
kde-usability-devel, if I correctly understood what is it for), alongside 
with patches for them.

On Sunday 09 November 2003 16:07, 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).
>
> Comments?

-- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@uai.com.br

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