> The real answer to the question is "whatever the maximum
> required to display all
> the kcontrol widgets".  That being said, the 640x480
> default probably came from
> KDE1 when VGA was the new standard. The fly in the ointment
> is the new 10" mini
> laptops -- I don't know what their resolution is, but I
> think we could safely do
> 800x760 as the default kcontrol size.
> 
> What we need to do is just run kcontrol and find out what
> the max size needs to
> be using kruler. I'll take a look tonight and see what I
> come up with. I'm
> betting that 800x760 would do while still preserving
> usability with the 1320x768
> res monitors.

Sounds nice. You also have to knnow where in the sources to make the change. Somewhere in tdebase/kcontrol? :-)

Darrell