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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Listing files in Konqueror
From:       Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () cirulla ! net>
Date:       2004-11-10 15:02:37
Message-ID: 200411101602.38034.mikelima () cirulla ! net
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> From a quick glance you seem to have right, and I think it would be
> pretty easy to find solid statements on that groups of items(text&icon)
> can be communicated by separating them with space, or other pattern.
> Perhaps in this link, which Zander posted:
> http://www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/ngo/
>

That's an interesting link, I'd like to look at it more closely.

> But most of all, do you have a patch for this, or is it just a cool idea,
> which will be discussed, and then fall into the endless archives of
> kde-usability?
>

I have toyed a bit with increasing the available space for the text label in 
konqueror. Actually, I made the text width proportional to the font height, 
as this would be needed when using a big font size, like the one people 
with low vision would use. The patch is quite trivial, at the moment, and
it can't go in as it is, since the layout is not updated after a font 
change. I wanted to experiment a bit more with it before asking for advice, 
but since the argument came out on its own, here I am.

Currently, I force the text label to be at least 7 times as long as the text 
height. This means text label can be 12-16 characters long on average, or 
just a bit larger than what is currently in CVS.
Personally, I would prefer a larger space, more similar to the one used by 
Nautilus, but I'm up for suggestions.


-- 
Luciano Montanaro 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo
                                                            - Enoch Root

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