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Re: GUI suggestion
by William C. Barwell on Saturday 21/Jan/2006, @00:13
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What KDE needs is a more general configurability of things like scroll bars.
For example, they get a bit thin on a 21" monitor or larger. Fishing for the small target area with a mouse can be a pain. Seeing it well can be a pain. Which a lot of people will experience as the grow older, as I am finding out. And for some who have motor-coordination problems, being able to double a scroll bar's size would be useful. Being able to set colors would be good too, for those with vision problems. Generally speaking all around configurablity should be an aim in future KDE systems. As technology goes on we will have Linux on stuff from phones to PDA to 10" sub-portables to 32" screens and 42" home media centers, capable of monitor Display. One might envision future KDE systems with a set of preset configuations from PDA to large monitors, to widescreen laptops etc. Pick one which gets you in the ball park and then configure anything not quite right. A large screen might be set with wider scroll bars. It would be nice to have it sort of like Opera where you left click an item and pull up a configuration dialogue. Hit a scroll bar and set it 2 x normal size and make it light blue. And it would be nice to have profiles for more than one user on a machine. A big plus in a business setting. Or a one computer family situation. It would make it easer for somebody with several machines to coordinate uniform setups across machines. |
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