[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Qt + KDE port

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 7/8/05, Nathan Turnage <pixelnate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, the whole screen looks like it is running at too loose a
> resolution. Everything should be scaled down a little bit. The fonts
> are a point or two too large, and IMHO they are a little ugly. Granted
> I am a designer and Mac zealot, so I am a little biased, but there are
> more interesting fonts available for linux.

You've seen it on the device? If not, there's little point commenting
on the font size as one needs to read it too, not just look at it....
 
> Font issues aside, I find it wasteful to lose so much screen space on
> navigational elements. Why do all four sides of the screen contain
> navigation? For instance, the application title is up in the left top
> corner, and all of the additional space on the top of the screen is
> wasted.

http://maemo.org/images/maemo/layout_browser_menu_thumb.jpg

What part of top you interpet as wasted?

> Also, there is entirely too much padding around the items in the
> pulldown menus. And that thick border on the pulldowns is unnecessary
> as well. As far as the scroll bars go, there is more room allocated for
> them than is being used.

Again, it *is* used (the side of the application scrolls the scrollbar too).

> Overall it just seems like there was little concern for usability and
> design in the UI.

Or then again...

> I just wish I
> knew GTK and C well enough to contribute more than opinion.

Most of what you just said are simply themeing issues so no coding required!

Happy hacking,

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi