On Monday, April 12, 2010 18:10:51 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > > The list of widgets makes in its current form makes it hard to both > > explore the widgets you have and finding one particular widget you > > need at the moment. Exploring the widgets is inconvenient, because you > > have to mouse-over every one of them to read what they are doing. > > Finding a particular widget is hard, because the icons are not always > > self-explanatory (and sometimes several widgets share icons) and text > > with the name of the widget is in small font (and again, sometimes you > > need to re-check the description to be sure that this widget is the > > one you're looking for) and gets clipped for long names.. > > I don't see how the old widgets explorer was better in managing this > issues...actually, in most of them it was worse.
Hm, I thin I see the point, it's easier to scan a vertical list of text , which is something you can't do with the new widget explorer. Using it horizontally makes this impossible. It's actually a bit better when you start the widget explorer on a vertical panel, as you then also get vertical scrolling behaviour (which is also more common for list-like views). For vertical panels, it might work better to put the text on the right next to the items (and maybe make the widget names a bit bigger), it looks a bit messy with the center-aligned icons w/ text below them right now. Maybe the widget explorer should just slide out from the side instead of from whever- the-panel-is. It's not tied to the panel anyway in that it operates on it (like the panel controller, which uses the same UI paradigm, slide-out-from-panel-over-full- length does). -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
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