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Re: No text, please!
by Aaron J. Seigo on Thursday 09/Jun/2005, @13:04
a) it is configurable
b) it's not on by default

i turned it on by default for one week (and turned it back off at the end of that period of time) so that the code path for button text would get wide testing. apparently these screenshots where taken during that week =)

one of the problems with having as many features, several of them "hidden", in an application such as kicker where people tend to run it in a more-or-less static configuration is that getting good testing coverage can be difficult. so i occasionally turn things on or off by default in SVN to get some testing by those who follow svn. KConfigXT has made this easier since i just modify an XML file and it doesn't write default values to the rc; both features are nice for this =)

unfortunately there isn't much that a test suite could automate here, either, since most of the "output" of kicker is graphical and interactive in nature requiring a user to try things and interpret the results as "expected" or "buggy". kicker behaviour is also sensitive to things like X configurations, including having save-unders enabled, Xinerama setups, dual-head configurations and screen resolutions.
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Re: No text, please!
by Mark Hannessen on Thursday 09/Jun/2005, @13:13
nice...

the word "Applications" takes way to much space in the kicker.
it's a bad thing to do. please keep the UI clean.
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