<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/11 Florian Busson <<a href="mailto:florian.busson@gmail.com">florian.busson@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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personally, i'm concerned it will, like many chimeras, feel awkward: the head<br>
of one animal and the body of the other.</blockquote><div><br>I realize you're right indeed , it can't be approached this way.<br>A more concistent way is to come closer with the gnome menu : no size constraint on tabs, it should depend on the content. But it has problaby been also suggested :/<br>
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but a patch would settle that once and for all.</blockquote><div><br>Sorry to still not help you much, but i've just some more screenshots about how kickoff could be in the 'gnome way' for displaying cascaded apps :<br>
<br>Favorites : <a href="http://pix.nofrag.com/b/4/4/304cc54d252ca3fb6ca6aec5475f7.html" target="_blank">http://pix.nofrag.com/b/4/4/304cc54d252ca3fb6ca6aec5475f7.html</a><br>Applications : <a href="http://pix.nofrag.com/8/8/e/500134c40dbc9ef65a3c4ecc4ae45.html" target="_blank">http://pix.nofrag.com/8/8/e/500134c40dbc9ef65a3c4ecc4ae45.html</a><br>
Computer : <a href="http://pix.nofrag.com/5/6/4/e252d2d1f6d1abe342f6bdcb20cd4.html" target="_blank">http://pix.nofrag.com/5/6/4/e252d2d1f6d1abe342f6bdcb20cd4.html</a><br>History : <a href="http://pix.nofrag.com/a/9/4/41a0b9f226b6fb21c8d76f663e477.html" target="_blank">http://pix.nofrag.com/a/9/4/41a0b9f226b6fb21c8d76f663e477.html</a><br>
Quit : <a href="http://pix.nofrag.com/8/2/7/0f1b3b23948400df2aa7fc852745b.html" target="_blank">http://pix.nofrag.com/8/2/7/0f1b3b23948400df2aa7fc852745b.html</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Not to be rude, but these mockups look very disorganized. They don't clearly change Kickoff<br>
except to resize elements, but the changed sizes make it look IMO very awkward.<br>Kickoff is very usable the way it is now. I don't think there is a cleaner way to organize<br>things other than the way kickoff does it currently. I think the right direction to move in<br>
would be to improve searching, and make some kind of "auto-favorites" that will place frequently<br>used items with higher priority. Any way you organize all the apps, etc. is going to either take up<br>too much space or look really awkward.<br>
<br>At the moment, kickoff looks the least awkward of anything I've seen. Submenus popping out like in<br>Windows are annoying and easily lost, and big things like tasty menu are just too cluttered and clunky.<br>Kickoff is clean, and was the result of serious usability studies IIRC.<br>
<br>In short, the real issue is "being psychic." I know raptor is going to try to do this, and I hope the facilities in raptor<br>will come into Kickoff's code. I think the default tab showing what you want and use, and a better, annotated search<br>
bar where both give you your commonly used items higher priority is the key to a better Kmenu.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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