Bug 99969

Summary:	I want icon zooming returned
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	eli
Component:	kcmpanel	Assignee:	Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description eli 2005-02-22 05:43:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.92)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

My favorite feature of the kde panel was icon zooming. This is one of the few things that distinguished it from everything else out there. Forgive the next comment but the new icon effect is big and ugly and makes it look more Windows xp than windows xp. I'm sure that many people like and use it. I personally think its intusive and ugly.

I want icon zooming in the panel returned. Pretty please with sugar on top.

Eli

ps. I doubt that this one is going to go away easily.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2005-02-22 07:42:18 UTC

i've discussed this to death. search bugs.kde.org for icon zooming bugs or my blog for entries on icon zooming if you're interested in the reasoning. executive summary: icon zooming was buggy by design, fixing it would bring us into breach of "IP" owned by large companies, the mouse overs serve a useful purpose in addition to providing *unique* eye candy.

> This is one of the few things that distinguished it from
> everything else out there

except MacOS, which is where KDE's icon zooming was (poorly) copied from. there are many other things far more unique to KDE than an icon that "pops" when you mouse over it.

> more Windows xp than windows xp

ah yes; you don't like it, so it's like Windows. =)

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2005-02-23 16:40:31 UTC

reopen to mark as dup (bug #95783)

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2005-02-23 16:40:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95783 ***