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german button labels too long
by suse on Saturday 12/May/2007, @04:55

i never use any button labels in toolbars. the labels are always too long !
like in Kmail: "Vorherige Ungelesene Nachricht" , "Filter als nicht Spam klassifizieren" and so on. it belongs the whole KDE TOOLBARS, you can find too long labels everywhere. It doesn't even make any difference, if you place the labels beside or below the Symbol in the toolbars. THEY ARE JUST TOO LONG.
Translating rules should follow usability as well.

It would be also nice and very useful, if the custom toolbars in Kicker can optional show a personal label.
Example:
- "the show desktop Applet" is placed on the kicker. but the icon is very small.
Adding a label (the applet's label, or better custom toolbar which can optional show a label) called "Show Desktop" beside the icon would be usable !
it is possible in WinXP too, you can try it there !

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100 % true!!!
by veton on Saturday 12/May/2007, @06:14

Remove those persistent labels. pop them up if needed, make them appear "on demand" !!!

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Re: 100 % true!!!
by superstoned on Monday 14/May/2007, @05:04

that's called a tooltip, and it's there. The problem is that having labels works quite OK in english, but most other languages (esp german) are much longer. So there you get into trouble. We'll see what happens, at least for now the labels ensure the app dev's try to get the toolbar as clean as possible...

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