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Re: [opensuse-kde] KDE design / style
- From: Christian Lorch <me@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:11:20 +0200
- Message-id: <200705291911.23230.me@xxxxxx>
Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2007 11:51:13 schrieb Will Stephenson:
> 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?
small-screen-interface is misunderstandable, maybe small-size-ui is better?
I have a 1400x1050/ 15" laptop-screen and normally I am fully pleased with the
usual design of most applications, but when you open e.g. digikam (after
having worked half a day with the adobe counterpart) it came into my mind
that the usage of the space is not 100% perfect.
You may look at the "Albenliste" (left side) or the "Stichwort-Filter" (tags,
right side), it would be nicer to use (from my point of view) if the space
between the lines would not be equal to the usual KDE-spaces but smaller,
maybe the fontsize could be smaller, too.
I dont want some apps to develop their own design guide but in some case is
could be better to provide a different ui-style, maybe only in parts of the
screen.
And maybe it would be interesting to provide a KDE-wide setting/ rule for such
parts of the ui.
Did you get my point?
> 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
Thanks a lot
Christian
--
Christian Lorch :: der nett.Zwerg-Berater
just visit :: http://salocke.xto.de :: just married
> 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?
small-screen-interface is misunderstandable, maybe small-size-ui is better?
I have a 1400x1050/ 15" laptop-screen and normally I am fully pleased with the
usual design of most applications, but when you open e.g. digikam (after
having worked half a day with the adobe counterpart) it came into my mind
that the usage of the space is not 100% perfect.
You may look at the "Albenliste" (left side) or the "Stichwort-Filter" (tags,
right side), it would be nicer to use (from my point of view) if the space
between the lines would not be equal to the usual KDE-spaces but smaller,
maybe the fontsize could be smaller, too.
I dont want some apps to develop their own design guide but in some case is
could be better to provide a different ui-style, maybe only in parts of the
screen.
And maybe it would be interesting to provide a KDE-wide setting/ rule for such
parts of the ui.
Did you get my point?
> 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
Thanks a lot
Christian
--
Christian Lorch :: der nett.Zwerg-Berater
just visit :: http://salocke.xto.de :: just married
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