Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/04/11 21:42 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin apparently typed:
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> > Felix Miata wrote:
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> > > The title text for the icons seems tied to the icon size. As you can see
> > > on http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/icons-48px-desktop-suse110-1920x1440x144.jpg
> > > it is impossible with the amount of text allocated to 48px icons to 
> > > distinguish between the various shares shown on the desktop. IOW, the
> > > icons are too small.
> > >       
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> > > Better for usability reasons to start bigger rather than smaller,
> > > because if smaller to start with, it's harder to reconfigure.
> > >       
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> > If you can configure them to be smaller you can configure them to be
> > bigger!
> >     
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> Only in theory. In general, when things are too small to start with, it can
> be difficult or impossible to navigate through settings in order to make
> things big enough to see. Not everyone has the visual acuity of the 18 year
> olds who design web sites overwhelmed with content text smaller than browser
> UI text.
>   


As far as I am concerned - and I have been known to be wrong!  :-)  - 
the icons one sees on the Desktop, or even in the quicklaunch taskbar 
the size of which you can configure, have nothing to do with those you 
see when one selects gecko/(START) and in the options shown there.

Changing the size of the icons on the Desktop does not alter the size of 
other icons anywhere else. But, as I said, I may be wrong because I do 
not a system where I have not changed the icon size to 22 pixels.

> > And the text under them is NOT connected to how big the icons are.
> >     
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> After some experimenting I see this is true, and in KDE3 at least, that as
> DPI goes up, the relative allocation for the text goes down, since that space
> is allocated in px instead of in pt. Hopefully this is something fixed in KDE4.
>   

Nothing to do with DPI. All to do with the font size. gecko>Configure 
Desktop>Appearance and Themes>Fonts and alter the size of the 
appropriate font (I don't remember which one is the one used for the 
description of the Desktop icon).



> > You ARE using openSUSE when you are making these statements aren't you?
> >     
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> Sorry if I assumed you could tell that from the screenshot. It used to be
> that the titlebars in SUSE's default theme included the head of the SUSE
> mascot, but now I see in Factory that is missing.
>   

Not your fault really - I should have looked a lot closer than I did :-) 
. (As I mentioned elsewhere, I am trying to get a friend install 
openSUSE and there I am not too sure if he has KDE installed or GNOME 
from some of the things he is mentioning/asking :-) .)

Ciao.


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