https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494578
--- Comment #2 from pallaswept <pallasw...@proton.me> --- Thanks for the context! This definitely is an improvement in this regard. Especially, I can relate to the first reply - I also use unusual fonts for better visibility. When one does so, it's not uncommon to notice that it can have an unexpected effect on the UI. It's nice that KDE considers these kind of things. The A/B screenshots do a very good job of illustrating the problem that it's introduced. The problem with label widths is mitigated by making each labelled element wider, and, to maintain similar overall density, shorter - but it also moves the label, and now the icons are separated by the width of the label, not by the height of the label. This last part is very significant. In other words, there's a lot more space between the icons, *and* it's filled with the greatest of the label's dimensions. But in the vertical, there's a lot less space between the icons, *and* there's no label there at all. These matters compound, because it's less comfortable to search horizontally because scanning in that direction is blocked by text, while there's far less friction in the vertical because all of the padding and the label have been removed, and we're forced to 2 columns, so we end up scanning through two vertical lists. This change has solved a real problem, but it's exacerbated an existing one. I'm scared to mention it, but... this one, specifically : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384782 The inability for the user to order the list is the entire reason that the user is required to search the list, which is now far more difficult than before. It wouldn't matter so much, that it's more difficult to search the list, if the user rarely needed to search, because the list was ordered with relevant items in an accessible location. I'm trying to think of ways to resolve this, and that one seems most effective, but I'd like to hear how others might solve it! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
