Re: [Usability] decicion on panel menu size

[Christian Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 18:33, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On 11 Jul 2003, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> 
> > Date: 11 Jul 2003 10:25:21 +0200
> > From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
> > To: usability gnome org
> > Subject: [Usability] decicion on panel menu size
> >
> > Hi,
> > I tried to read through the usability list regarding changing the size
> > of the menu alike what Ximian has done. I am not sure a concensus was
> > reached, but I think that unless the vast majority of people where
> > against it then the change should go in. I just tested my own theme and
> > things looks decidedly better with the large icons. Having the icons
> > bigger makes them decidedly easier to identify even for people with
> > normal vision like me so I would think the usability of the desktop
> > definitly increase with this.
> >
> > To examplify:
> > Big icons:
> > http://www.linuxrising.com/files/nuvolamenubig.png
> 
> Is the vertical advertising stripe really necessary?
Well having tried both with and without I think it is rather nice looking
to have. It also helps bring the desktop more toghether themeingwise as
it pick up the colour from the GTK+ theme, just like the windowmanager
does.

> My only worry is excluding users with smaller displays but I dont expect
> that would be a problem but it does mean that the number of items needs to
> be kept below a maximum of roughly 15 items.
Maybe reducing the site should be made available as an option in
gconf-editor.

Christian