[Panel-devel] application menu and "utilities"

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi all...

an interesting observation was raised on kde-devel by the maintainer of 
ksysguard: we have a lot of programs that aren't really "full applications" 
in the sense that kopete, k3b, kword, konsole, etc are.

they are more like "desktop services" such as kcharselect, kfloppy, kabc, and 
ksysguard. he suggested that in user visible strings, they are referred to by 
function (e.g. 'Character Selector') rather than by name (e.g. kcharselect).

he also mentioned the kmenu in passing and i think it may be worthwhile to 
keep in mind while creating raptor that there may be applications we don't 
want to show quite as prominently as others based on this.

right now we have the (very poor, imho) "More Applications" menus and the 
Utilities menu. still, there's no place to actually find these small apps all 
in one place or in a user-appropriate way. the Generic Names for these apps 
are pretty good (kcarhselect's is "Character Selector"), but the user can 
easily override this (and lose the useful information here) by changing their 
settings.

i'm not sure if there's a Better(tm) way of presenting them than we currently 
do. thoughts?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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