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Subject:    [konqueror] [Bug 379486] New: Konqueror UI is hard to use for people with limited eyesight.
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Date:       2017-05-03 17:35:11
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379486

            Bug ID: 379486
           Summary: Konqueror UI is hard to use for people with limited
                    eyesight.
           Product: konqueror
           Version: 5.0.97
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: konq-bugs@kde.org
          Reporter: R030t1@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

Hello,

I am not the one experiencing the problem, but there was a user (who wished to
not submit a report themselves) that was having trouble using the newest
version of Konquerer due to UI changes and poor eyesight.

    2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close
    current tab show no icons, making difficult to guess.

    <...>

    7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them, 
    hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background.  I know my 
    eye sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to 
    usability sabotage.

This was, of course, accompanied by other complaints, but I feel this issue is
important enough to take out of context for submission to this tracker.

If I had to guess I think the issue stems from the adoption, knowingly or
unknowingly, of what is now called "material design"*. While I quite like most
interfaces produced using design guidelines that one could say are material
design please take note that it is very very easy to produce incomprehensible
UIs following Google's guidelines (and Google has done some of this).



* Material design actually existed for a number of years before Google started
using it under that name. It was "created" by FOSS projects who didn't have any
artists that decided to draw colored rectangles with text in them.

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