Re: [kde-artists] Size of the appmenu button in Oxygen windeco

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi KDE artist team,
> I'd like to discuss the size and general visual appearance of the
> application
> menu button in the Oxygen window decoration. Currently the application menu
> button is the same size as other buttons in the window title bar.
> When looking at applications which draw a menu button into their
> client-side
> decorations (on platforms which allow that), e.g. Firefox or MS Office,
> however, one notices that the menu buttons are usually considerably larger
> and
> differently shaped than the other buttons in the title bar. This makes
> sense
> to me because a menu is usually more important and accessed more often than
> other title bar buttons, and thus should be visually more prominent and
> have a
> larger click area than other buttons.
> Another problem I see with the current appearance is that users might not
> even
> recognize it as a menu button (unless they just switched from menu bar to
> menu
> button and notice the new button).
> Therefore I suggest to design a new appmenu button which is larger than the
> other buttons (most likely wider), and perhaps even write the application's
> name or simply "Menu" on it.
> What do you guys think? What would make sense from an aesthetics
> perspective?
>

I actually liked the original project, which would put somewhat flat button
in the windeco with the application name (was fully configurable), see
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/oxygen-appmenu-replace-menu-with.html for
screenshots.

I would be for this again.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer

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