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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: kdebase/libkonq
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-16 22:21:33
Message-ID: 200501161621.33730.mattr () kde ! org
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On Sunday 16 January 2005 04:18 pm, Oliver Bausinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 16. January 2005 23:10, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 January 2005 04:03 pm, Oliver Bausinger wrote:
> > > CVS commit by bausi:
> > >
> > > Changed "Increase Icon Size -> Increase Icons" etc.
> > > to make the text shown on the toolbar a bit shorter for people with
> > > text on
> > >
> > >
> > >   M +2 -2      konq_dirpart.cc   1.85
> >
> > This, IMHO, just doesn't make any sense because now it sounds like you're
> > increasing the number of icons not the size of them.
>
> This was just to be consistent with the change that was done in khtml_part
> where we changed "Increase Font Sizes" to "Increase Font" (as proposed by
> Leo Savernik). So I thought the same should be done here to be consistent.
>

Those two changes do not change the meaning of the action. This change, even 
though it doesn't change how the button functions, changings the meaning of 
text so that it doesn't describe the function the button performs.

> Is this really confusing? As soon as people click on it they will
> immediately understand what it does.
>

Yes, it's confusing, or i wouldn't be objecting.

Matt
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