https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427747
Nate Graham <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|NOT A BUG |INTENTIONAL CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- Indeed. Starting by insulting people's work is generally a bad way to get them to listen to you. Nevertheless, I will demonstrate patience and tact (not humility though lol) by doing so anyway. Here is a substantive response: The change from a list to a grid was made mostly for usability reasons rather than aesthetic ones (though there was a bit of that). The new design fixes the following issues suffered by the old list-style design: 1. The list items were so skinny that they weren't touch-friendly at all. Making them thicker to improve touch friendliness would waste space and cause fewer items to be visible at once 2. Because individual items respond to scroll events, it was impossible to scroll through list without accidentally changing the brightness, volume, etc. 3. When the main list became collapsed into an icons-only sidebar on the left, the above issue persisted, in addition to the scrollbar overlapping the icons due to the use of overlay-style scrollbars. This is not an easy bug to fix because you can't deterministically get the width of the scrollbar or know if the view is scrollable without introducing binding loops which reduce performance and can cause crashes. Also scrollable icons-only sidebars just look ugly in general. The new design solves all of these problems. If we went back to the old one, we would re-introduce those problems with a clear way to fix them. If we took your suggestion and made the grid items icons-only, then we would (justifiably) get complaints that people didn't know what the icons did. Many System Tray icons do not satisfactorily express what the applets do. Text is important here. Additionally, if we took your suggestion, then there would be much more empty space in the popup itself, and we'd get complaints about that. There isn't really a way to please everyone here given extremely divergent tastes among KDE users regarding whitespace, padding and layout compactness. I think we'll be staying with the current design. However if you would like to get more involved with the design process, please feel free to check out the KDE VDG. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/design -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
