[kubuntu-users] System Settings (Draper)

Jonathan Riddell jriddell at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 8 18:02:12 UTC 2006


On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:36:54AM -0700, Holger Rumland wrote:
> this is a little note to the developers of Kubuntu and it
> would be nice, if they acknowlede the following fact, in order
> to change it. The System Settings of Kubuntu is definitly a
> good tool, but people with laptops of a screen size 1280x800
> (wide screens), will have trouble to find or access the apply
> buttons for instance, as by default all the system settings windows
> pop up to a fixed size (1024). A prime example for this problem is
> the Printer setup dialog. The Kicker placed on the button by default
> covering in this case the buttons of the windows dialog. This has been
> not changed over time, and following the Betas, the dialog windows itself
> are also not resizeable. It would be wonderfull if this could be changed,
> until the final version of Kubuntu is out, and is then also for this group
> of users enjoyable to use this tool, like for instance Yast.

This is fixed SVN to use scrollbars, and I'll make further fixes to
the modules so they don't need to on 1024 screens.

Jonathan




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