Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (58 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, Christian Lorch said:
> I like unices and especially KDE for their efforts in beeing consistent in
> design (even the utilitys for burning, musik, scanning, ... :-) and
> therefore I dont want eg gwenview, digikam, amarok, k3b developing their
> own UI but...
>
> Is there a possibility in (SuSE)-KDE-design to allow sort of "small screen
> interface" or to implement special design rules for some parts of the UI?

Depends on what you mean by small-screen - 1024x768?  640x480?  Handheld?

You can squeeze the UI quite a lot without changing code by using a 
lightweight style, smaller fonts, icons and window decorations.  AFAIK the 
convention is to design dialogs that fit into 800x600 screens with the 
default style settings, but I'm not sure that this is policed.  Below that 
you do have to start rearranging the UI to remove elements to make them fit.  
This is a lot of work and distracts from KDE's target market which is 
desktop/laptop computers.  However some developers have produced derivative 
versions of KDE programs which do work on smaller displays - search for 
Konqueror/Embedded and KDEPIM/PI.  The problem then is keeping two distinct 
codebases in sync.

I happily use KDE at 1024x768 on my Thinkpad X60 (12.1" screen) - I'll try and 
post a screenshot today on my opensuse.org page.

Will
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Desktop Engineer
Interfaces and Applications Team
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