kde-quality Digest, Vol 24, Issue 15

[Vlad Blanton]

Hello all, I'm new to the list :)  Should have added myself to the list a long 
time ago...

I like the *Recent apps part of the proposed layout. That way we won't have to 
search for the location of a new program for a few minutes each time 
something is installed. It might be nice to have something indicate where it 
is located within the *Programs menu like... 

*Recent apps
   - Quanta Plus! (Web Development Environment) (Development)
   - Firefox (Web Browser) (Internet)
   - K3b (CD/DVD Burning) (Multimedia)
   - Battle For Wesnoth (Strategy Game) (Games)
   - KPresenter (Slide Presentations) (Office)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
* PC....

Everything else is fine except for two things.
1. Having all programs within a separate menu instead of within the main menu 
is very *Windows* like and could raise complaints. Is there a different (aka 
new) and usable way we could do this?
2. Having *Session split off into a separate menu is not a good idea. The 
Logout/Restart/Shutdown buttons need to be easy to find and easy to click 
(without the chance of missing them and having to start all over again from 
the main menu!).  Having them within another menu can also be obscure and 
hard to find.

Hope my input helps a bit.

Vladislav Blanton

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 11:57 am, Iñaki wrote:
> El Miércoles, 25 de Enero de 2006 17:31, Jeremy escribió:
> > Iñaki wrote:
> > >Why not a simple menu like the following?
> > >
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------
> > > * Recents apps
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > > * PC
> > > * Programs
> > > * Control Center
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > > * Find
> > > * Run Command
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > > * Session
> > >--------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >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...
> > >--------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This menu is very close to the proposition of the current Mandriva
> > distribution. The only difference I see is that Mandriva proposes the
> > KDE Control Center and the Mandriva Control Center.
> > This to say  that it is  a good project for KDE to provide a powerful
> > framework to create Control Center for system setting.
> > But there is may be no need to give strict Control Center because all
> > the distribution have to put inside how to modify their own
> > specificities.
>
> This should be the proposal of KDE in the future: avoid the need of the
> distributions of adding their own "Control Center". I don't know Mandriva,
> but if they add a "Mandriva Control Center" maybe because the "KDE Control
> Center" is not enough, that is true today.
>
> If a good and complete "KDE Control Center" exists, each distribution
> should change only the "Install Software" module inside the "KDE Control
> Center" (for Debian, Mandriva...) and modify some code because the
> different locations of each distro (/etc directories and files, for
> example).