[Bug 175972] New: menu: provide menu search feature "where it is"

Maciej Pilichowski bluedzins at wp.pl
Mon Nov 24 11:53:27 CET 2008


http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175972

           Summary: menu: provide menu search feature "where it is"
           Product: kdelibs
           Version: 4.1
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdelibs-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: bluedzins at wp.pl


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

menu: provide menu search feature "where it is"

The thing is with complex (or unknown) app it is not easy to find menu item.
"preview" -- where it is?

So in general my idea is to provide "where it is" feature which would work
exactly like KMenu opensuse search for KDE3.5. And it works this way, that you
start typing something in editbox and all items which does not matched are
(temporarily) disabled.
This was the wish.

Now, just a suggestions -- where to put this so it would be accessible, i.e.
user won't fall into category "where is the <<where is>>"? So I would opt for
menu. I know it is against current HIG, but HIG can change as well to
accommodate this approach. So it could look like this

File Edit View Window Help  [ ______ ]

with ability to turn it off. Because for some apps (like kpdf) user could not
see any benefit having this, in others like kate, kile, kdevelop, konqueror ->
yes.


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