GUI framework in kde4

[Frans Englich]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 20:41, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:56, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:08, Hamish Rodda wrote:
[...]

> > - Will the new framework include configurability of context menus? If
> > yes, then this would allow us to strip down the context menus in e.g.
> > KMail by removing all actions that are seldomly used by normal users
> > (I'm counting on the usability team to tell us which actions we should
> > remove). Power users could then still put everything they want into
> > their context menus. And we could close all those wishlist items a la
> > "I need this and that in the context menu".
>
> It is technically feasible... just how it would be presented to the user
> for configuration would be an interesting challenge (turn on an "edit mode"
> then click a configure action in the context menu?)

The usability folks should do some deep thinking on this. An aspect such as 
how often the feature is used and (primarily) by whom, plays in, I'd say.

"User modes" are tricky at best, so perhaps something like the current 
Configure Toolbar/Menus/Shortcut dialogs. Or perhaps it all, actions and the 
different ways to active them, can be edited in some uniform way.


Cheers,

		Frans