Hello,<br>
<br>
The main question is not what the start-menu should be, but why someone
actually opens it up. What this project assumes is that if one wants to
start doing something they need to open up the start menu. Otherwise
nothing can be done. WRONG! This is one of the problems you try to
solve WITHIN the start-menu . First you look at your desktop and to do
something it takes a mouseclick before one can actually be doing
something.<br>
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Throw away the start-menu? Most users make shortcuts on the desktop so
they can instantly acces something. Look at your own house. How much do
you use the fire-extinguisher? Probably never, or I hope so. But IF you
need it you need it fast. If you never used an application before,
let's say you just installed one, you have to serieusly search because
its never been used before. See what I mean? And I don't mean it's just
for just-installed apps.<br>
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"Throwing away the start-menu? Good idea!" -Not really; you would have
the entiry menu on you desktop wich takes away a LOT if workspace. The
main idea why this project is started anyway is to make a GUI that's
easyer to use, faster to use and more productive. Change the entire GUI
not just the start-menu!! The reason why it's not so good is because it
is actually there!<br>
<br>
Your are now at the beginning of this project. My suggestion is that
you blow off the work you have done so far and start over with it. A
new start that focus on the entire GUI.<br>
"Desktop computing has changed radically in the last 20 years,<br>
yet our desktops are essentially the same as they were in 1984.<br>
It's time the desktop caught up with us." -Indeed! So forget about the
start-menu and focus on the entire GUI as ONE. The GUI the user looks
at covers the entire screen, not just the start-menu.<br>
<br>
"The start-menu is just a part of the Plasma project." -In the end you
will have a new GUI that basicly is the same as all the older ones but
will look like it's new because it will be better organised.<br>
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Should we be still using windows, icons, taskbars and a 2d envirement?
Use the GRAPHICS card to deal with the GRAPHICAL user invirement and
let the CPU deal with the applications. This way there is much more
memmory (on the motherboard) and CPU power available for other not-KDE
stuff. This requires games to run in full screen for KDE to be unloaded
from the graphics card. Playing games, like Unreal Torunament 2004 and
Half-Life2, in windowed mode is a stupid idea anyway because playing
these games windowsed, use all the keys and your mouse to be controlled.<br>
<br>
Whoah! You might think :-)<br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
<br>
Vincent Weber<br>
<a href="mailto:weber.vincent@gmail.com">weber.vincent@gmail.com</a><br>