kde-quality Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

[Iñaki]

El Miércoles, 25 de Enero de 2006 16:20, Loren Dias escribió:
> Aside from this I feel the menus are Overbloated in so many distributions,
> It might be a good idea to have "Internet", "Office", "Multimedia"...etc
> under a little menu called "Applications"
>
> PC-BSD Has a wonderful example I feel KDE could learn from
> http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=564&slide=9
> http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=564&slide=7

I don't like these photos. In Kmenu I see:
  * Computer - PC-BSD Settings
  * Control Center
  * Settings
  * System Menu

Which is the difference between them? only after opening all the entries maybe 
possible to see the diference, but they are not intuitive for me.

It could be better just with one entry: "Control Center". That's all.

Why not a simple menu like the following?


------------------------------------------------
 * Recents apps
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * PC
 * Programs
 * Control Center
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * Find
 * Run Command
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * Session
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And those are the entries of each submenu:

------------------------------------------------
 * Recents apps
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * PC
      - My Home
      - Devices
      - Remote Sites
 * Programs
      - Internet
      - Multimedia
      - Office
      - ...
 * Control Center
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * Find
 * Run Command
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 * Session
      - Switch User
      - Lock Session
      - Log Out...
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Note: "Find" program should be something much better than Kfind, something 
that let the user look for anything in files, documents, mails, kopete 
conversations... I think there is something similar for KDE in developing.


Of course, in "Programs" - "Internet" shouldn't be applpications like Kppp, 
KwifiManager or similar. All about networking configuration should be 
integrated in "Control Center" - "Networking".


Just my opinion ;)