<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Well, the glory of Plasma...Someone can write another menu system and<br>make it a widget. I suspect we're going to see a lot of menu systems in the<br>future. :-)<br><br>My personal thoughts, I agree with most of what Florian has said.<br>I find Kickoff to be a wretched mess, but I like the way it looks when you first<br>open it although it's a bit HUGE. Application navigation in Kickoff is ridiculous regardless of<br>usability studies. If I can't make sense of it, or it wastes time it's not usable. It's definitely a time<br>waster if you don't have the app you want present off the root menu.<br><br>As for just digging around in Kickoff applications it is soooo easy to get lost. Imagine if there were<br>
also Up/down arrows available in Kickoff navigation?...which by the way I think is curiously<br>
omitted, but probably not wanting to confuse the user anymore with the complications already present.<br>
Up down arrows with labels could take you from one category to another if you were inside a sub menu.<br>
That would simplify navigation a bit, but again it might complicate this 'simple' interface.<br><br>So the argument goes...search for what you want...The problem with searching is very few noobs<br>know anything about the applications available on Linux. Perhaps worse, the search system in <br>Kickoff has no intuitive way back to the menu system. Sure erasing the search term takes you back, <br>but how does someone know this? Training? I suppose but not really an answer I think. Search to me<br>indicates I'm lost from the start. Not good...plus what male asks for directions? Heh heh.<br><br>I prefer right click> Run command versus using Kickoff, but only because I know the<br>applications I have available. For a noob, run command is virtually useless. Kudos though to<br>whoever is working on 'run command' btw. The eye candy is pure genius.<br><br>For me I'll stick with the traditional menu and perhaps someday when I learn
to code better<br>I'll make a widget that makes sense to me and we can debate its merits or lack thereof. :-)<br><br>Peace to everyone...I'm going on vacation! No internet for at least a week...gotta give the<br>carpal tunnel a rest and run a defrag on the brain. Cheers!<br></div></div><br>
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