[Clug-tech] kde3 and kde4

[peter]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 8:46 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> it's the other 98% of humans that also ought to be
> able to use software without feeling like a retarded monkey that we're
> trying to think about as well.

I understand...and I'm not saying that those small sizes should be the 
default. Of course not! I'm merely stating that it's nice to have the option 
to set sizes as small as one is comfortable with.


> the defaults don't tend to be optimized for people who love 16px
> icons.

That's fine...I deal with this all the time: items that are optimized for the 
majority. That's reality. I'm just glad when developers consider the "tiny 
minority" in their design (which is why I use KDE).


> but personally i'd refraing from "judging by discussion" on such
> issues.

How else do we learn of the merits or failings of a product if not through 
discussion. It sounded to me from Gustin's original post (and your comment 
about small sizes), that KDE development was going away from permitting those 
small settings. My apologies for presuming incorrectly.


> the panel size and position (it's not called a taskbar; the taskbar is just
> one applet in there) is configurable via the gui in 4.0.2.

...ah, yes. My apologies.


> and the buttons in kde4 aren't any bigger (see what happens when you try
> and judge by discussion?)
>
> the icons in some areas are bigger, and that benefits _most_ people. for
> the rest of us, we can tone them down to our liking. just like you always
> could.

Kewl...thanks for clearing up the confusion.

-- 
Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible

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