[KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar

[Dotan Cohen]

>> Is that not true of a PDF viewer? The whole page doesn't fit on a
>> vertical screen (even less on a widescreen). So why does Okular still
>> have a menubar?
>
> Possible reasons:
> - Because its menu is too complex to qualify for "reduced menu"
>

It's a viewer. What need be complicated? I argue that systems settings
is far more complicated. Sure, the Okular devs managed to build a
complicated and powerful menu system, and I actually thank them for
that, but it need not be there at all. How many of those menus and
settings does one change often enough to not have it in a single
Configuration menu?


> - Because having to scroll to reach all the content of a dialog
>   (systemsettings) is really poor UI, whereas having to scroll through a
>   document which in most case won't ever fit in the screen (okular) is
>   more acceptable
>

So you are arguing that in Okular, one must already scroll, so let him
scroll all the more?


> - Because in Okular one can:
>   - zoom the document to fit the page
>   - enter fullscreen mode to use all the vertical space of the screen
>

These are good points.


>> Or how about a web browser?
>
> Rekonq is a web browser...
>

Ah, right, somehow I had hijacked this thread and turned it into a
Systems Settings discussion. Sorry.


>> Or an office suite?
>
> An office suite menu is usually too complex to qualify for "reduced menu"
>

So the focus is on the menu being complex and therefore important,
without consideration to the actual content area of the document? No
wonder it's gotten so complex.


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