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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Some thoughts on toolbars in KDE
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-10-12 7:38:24
Message-ID: 470F2470.2030006 () acm ! org
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Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On 10/10/07, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote:
>> Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>>> On 10/9/07, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote:
>>>> Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>>>>> Personally, I'm a big fan of the zoom widgets like now in Koffice and
>>>>> Gwenview used... Wouldn't that make sense? Maybe such a widget needs
>>>>> to find it's way into KDElibs for 4.1 or something...
>>>> Perhaps you could post a screen shot.
>>> See attached screenshot. Would solve it if used everywhere ;-)
>>>
>>> To be clear, it's in the statusbar, bottom right. This was in Karbon...
>> Yes, but ... (tm)
>>
>> What happens if it is used in a vertical toolbar?
> 
> it isn't and can't, it belongs and always is in the statusbar. It's
> not a toolbar thing at all... In other words, we could just get rid of
> all toolbar-zoom-tools, and integrate this in the statusbar of all
> apps which require zooming.
> 
> Problem solved, though the widget might need more work.

IIUC, you are suggesting that the zoom widget should always be in the 
status bar.  This is a possible solution.

Have you seen the volume control slider in KPlayer.  Something like I 
was talking about for the zoom widget.

-- 
JRT
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