Bug 178024 - Systemsettings space and look issue
Summary: Systemsettings space and look issue
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.1
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: System Settings Bugs
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Reported: 2008-12-18 00:40 UTC by Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas
Modified: 2009-09-18 00:51 UTC (History)
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Description Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas 2008-12-18 00:40:36 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources


System Settings, on my humble opinion, is a step forward in the right direction, however, it seems to be too cluttered and wasting too much space, a screenshot:

http://www.suse.de/~dmacvicar/screenshots/kde4-system-settings/1.png

Doesn't look bad? Let's see the System Preferences on Mac OS X:

http://www.suse.de/~dmacvicar/screenshots/osx-preferences/leopard-preview-prefs-24.png

System Settings windows size is 690 x 521, while System preferences size is 615 x 423. Yet, OS X implementation is showing 26 options against 16, and, looking less cluttered and easy to understand at the same time.

I think KDE devs could take a hint from Mac OS X system preferences, and reduce the space between items, and changing the way it separates sections (because it's wasting much space too).
Comment 1 Rafael Fernández López 2009-09-18 00:51:29 UTC 
Current look: http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/12/systemsettings-new-new2.png.

This has made it for KDE 4.4.