Like I said, been there forever, there's a checkbox for it in the Font configuration tab. If it's not there your X server doesn't support XRender. What version are your running and with what video card?
I use and develop for KDE on a AMD K6/450 with 128 Meg RAM with no problems whatsoever. I usually have the full KDE desktop, Konq, KMail, and several Konsoles running and still have 50M *physical* RAM free. Your install sucks;-) Mine's compiled with --enable-final and objprelink, and is very snappy.
First of all, I'd hardly call right clicking on the toolbar having to "dig deep...into the configuration". It's not like KDE is making you edit text files or anything. You can also select it in the KDE Control Center under the "Style" entry. There are plenty of places to set this - have you really even used KDE?
As for what should be default, *you* think labels make toolbars easier to use, I think it wastes screen real estate (I have a lot of windows open at any given time). *I* wouldn't want it to be default, but you do. They both have good points, but it's certainly not something that you could say "this definitely should be one way". So what can we do but make them both available, choose a sensible default, and let users choose. For me, that's medium sized icons with no labels like most UI's. You feel differently. *Shrug*, KDE allows you to do whatever you like. You'll always get flamed no matter what defaults you choose... if we did it your way people would complain "KDE's toolbars are huge!" and I'd be telling them to right click on them and set what they want;-)
As for the menus, they are fine for me. If you don't like them it doesn't require any programming skill to change their order. Do things your way and suggest to people to change them. This is open development, your not stuck with anything you don't like.
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Erm, try right clicking on the toolbar handle and this is what you get:
Text Position->Icons Only, Text Only, Text aside icons, Text under icons.
There are your labels. Been here ever since KDE2.0 development first started. You can also select icon size and got a selection of small, medium, and large.
As for "progressive disclosure", I don't see this problem but if you do almost all of the menus and toolbars are constructed out of XML. Edit them if you think you can do better and post it to the KDE mailing lists (or the application author).
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Like I said, been there forever, there's a checkbox for it in the Font configuration tab. If it's not there your X server doesn't support XRender. What version are your running and with what video card?
Uhm, it's been optional in KDE forever. Run KControl, select Look 'n Feel and Fonts.
I use and develop for KDE on a AMD K6/450 with 128 Meg RAM with no problems whatsoever. I usually have the full KDE desktop, Konq, KMail, and several Konsoles running and still have 50M *physical* RAM free. Your install sucks ;-) Mine's compiled with --enable-final and objprelink, and is very snappy.
As for what should be default, *you* think labels make toolbars easier to use, I think it wastes screen real estate (I have a lot of windows open at any given time). *I* wouldn't want it to be default, but you do. They both have good points, but it's certainly not something that you could say "this definitely should be one way". So what can we do but make them both available, choose a sensible default, and let users choose. For me, that's medium sized icons with no labels like most UI's. You feel differently. *Shrug*, KDE allows you to do whatever you like. You'll always get flamed no matter what defaults you choose... if we did it your way people would complain "KDE's toolbars are huge!" and I'd be telling them to right click on them and set what they want ;-)
As for the menus, they are fine for me. If you don't like them it doesn't require any programming skill to change their order. Do things your way and suggest to people to change them. This is open development, your not stuck with anything you don't like.
Text Position->Icons Only, Text Only, Text aside icons, Text under icons.
There are your labels. Been here ever since KDE2.0 development first started. You can also select icon size and got a selection of small, medium, and large.
As for "progressive disclosure", I don't see this problem but if you do almost all of the menus and toolbars are constructed out of XML. Edit them if you think you can do better and post it to the KDE mailing lists (or the application author).