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item called "Amarok" in a menu, when you know perfectly the name and
you could access it with three keys. Not to mention when you want to
"listen to music" and you don't know which application does such a
thing in your system. The search-oriented launcher simply rocks. And
the fact that you have a special place in your system to look for
applications (which is a special entity in your system) makes your
life simpler and happier, and makes you become a better person and
makes your neighbours be much nicer :D. Ok, no joke: simple, fast,
easy: it is just perfect.

As for the other point, I have never read a word that it goes into
Plasma, and seems important to me: the system notifications. Right now
we have a "mailbox" to send all the system notifications, which is
called Knotify. The problem is knotify looks poor and not very
powerful. Applications can ask for pop-up notifications, but from the
user point of view, there is no control on how this notifications are
managed (place in which they appear, duration...)

This looks like an essential point on the desktop environment to me.
And id turns more and more important everyday, as the standard users
get involved with technologies such as the instant messaging or the
e-mail, and use them everyday. The notifications should be homogeneous
and configurable, so you receive all that "flash information" in a way
that it is easily assimilated.

Is Knotify getting into Plasma? The pop-up notification area could be
perfectly one of those extenders, and all the pop-ups in the system
could be configured at once. We would have the new-message Kopete
notifications and the Kmail informational messages about our mailboxes
all together, integrated in our desktop (not just as a dirty and ugly
pop-up appearing somewhere in our screen) and highly configurable.

I have more ideas and questions, concerning the launchers and the
taskbar (my ideas are quite radical about the latter), but first I
don't know if they go here, and second, this was way too long for an
introductory e-mail... Thank you all for your time (and patience if
you are still reading :D).

Cheers,

Fran.

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Francisco Joaqu=EDn Rodr=EDguez Prados
Fachbereich Informatik,
Fachhochschule Darmstadt,
Darmstadt, Germany
E-mail: prados at gmail.com
JID: franqui at jabber.dk