Office/ and Utilities/ menu reorganization

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:01, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:44, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 11:37, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > > Personally I vote to remove all of the "More Applications" menus. 
> > > Having large menus is better then being confused.
> >
> > On the other hand, why not just get rid of the applications menu? Put the
> > applictions:/ ioslave by default on the panel, make it read/write so it
> > can be used to organize it and reserve the k-menu for important stuff
> > like recent documents, create new documents, login/logout, preferences
> > and bookmarks. Maybe add a little triangle or something to the app icons
> > (or three dots to the names) that are actually folders. Maybe hide
> > already running applications that cannot be started a second time?
> >
> > Somehow, the applications:/Office/ sheet is a lo less intimidating than
> > the menu, perhaps because of the big, friendly icons.
>
> That's not a bad idea alltogether, you know. The whole start menu thing is
> a pain in the neck. We keep it just so that windows users don't get
> confused, but If you look at what stunts Microsoft has to pull to make it
> somewhat manageable, like dynamically hiding entries that have not been
> touched for some time, you clearly get the feeling that it's not the best
> solution for the problem ...

Yes, let's put it in the system:/ ioslave :-) which should IMO be made the 
default home for konqy, at least in filemanager-mode.
OS X lives quiet good without a start menu :-)
Is there a problem with making the K-menu an optional button like all the 
other special buttons on kicker ?

Bye
Alex
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