On Sunday 01 February 2009 03:36:30 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2009, David Baron wrote: > > OK, there is a whole pane in the config dialog just for a keyboard > > shortcut that few, as of yet, even use. > > all popupapplets along with show desktop and show dashboard do. > They need it. I also incorporated it for similar reasons. I think that applets should cover minimal space until activate()'ed. Maybe I'll change my mind when I have a dual-head system and two 30 inch LCDs.
> > An about box could take another pane or > > share this one :-) > > this might make sense, yes. > > > There is nothing wrong with having the version available any more than > > having the name and appletName available. > > it adds to the API which comes with a cost. Minimal. > > They can go in an about box, the > > title bar of a dialog box, etc. > > we provide an about box, and there is little to no value to it being in a > dialog title. > > > And if differing about box versions > > materialize, well, there are different config dialogs around also. > > .. which configure different things. we have been standardizing some of the > bits of configure diaogs, however, to ensure consistency where possible. > > > Even in windows, there is no absolute conformity. > > how is that a justification? The whole thing of linux (and opensource) is freedom. I am not stuck with one person's good and not-so-good UI philosophy and design taste. I can run gnome or KDE or something lighter or all of them. As long as minimum usability and consistency is maintained, I can choose my poison. I might be in favor a a published UI guideline for plasma applets interfaces (after there is proper published documentation :-)), but I would bet there be many who would object We all install stuff we like. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
