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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
The only rationale I've seen was that "it took up too much space"... which I don't buy. If too many icons are added to the top bar, you get a nice little arrow that leads you to the hidden ones. So why can't the user have control over that? I'm mystified.
Yep. And the second thing is.. there's _lots_ of space.. but it can't be utilized, because that bar is fixed-size and can't be adjusted in the applet control. There's room for 2 more icons to the right, but now it's just a black space. To the left there's a huge gray bar which says just 'Home', it can't be shrinked and the status bar can't be stretched to the left. It could _easily_ have room for 7-8 more icons if the UI designers had used some common sense.

You can see the design (or rather, implementation) problem elsewhere too, in the Nokia-provided applets: For most of them you can't shrink them as much as you like. The internet radio, the FM radio, you can't adjust them properly. Unlike good 3party applets like simple-launcher and many others, where you have full freedom to shrink and stretch as you wish. For OS2007, at least, this is critical, because applets are not allowed to overlap.
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Last edited by TA-t3; 2007-11-08 at 15:56.