[kde-guidelines] Possible guidelines for buttons with menus

[Aurélien Gâteau]

[Assuming this was meant for the list as well]
Le lundi 5 août 2013 12:12:36 Heiko Tietze a écrit :
> Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 11:42:34 schrieben Sie:
> > I think there is a need for a way to provide access to less-used actions
> > without cluttering the interface. In the case of the Kate session dialog,
> > it would look quite bulky if the "New Session" button was turned into two
> > buttons: "New Session" and "New Session using Selected Session as
> > Template" (granted one could reword the button to something shorter like
> > "New Session Based on Selection", but it's still large)
> 
> Why not use a dropdown containing "new plain session" and "new session based
> on selected session" together with a push button "execute" (or just a
> simple glyph)?

But that would require more clicks, right?
1. Click the dropdown
2. Select item
3. Click execute

I think this could be simplified into a menu button:
1. Click menu button
2. Select item => it executes the action

Aurélien