[Panel-devel] Kickoff should require click to change tabs

[Brian Beck]

I'm just telling you the way it is for me.  If I'm not representative of the
average user, (I thought I might be) then don't worry about going from hover
to click.  I've noticed that I often find myself with the wrong tab open
even if the one I wanted was initially selected.  Usually it occurs when I'm
trying to go from clicking the K up to some item, when I'm trying to reach
the last item or grab the scrollbar, or skimming the list with my mouse
pointer.

It's no big deal though.  There appear to be a number of K-Menu choices
becoming available if after using this for awhile it still doesn't "fit" my
mouse style then I can try one of them.

-- Brian

On Dec 16, 2007 4:24 PM, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Brian Beck wrote:
> > I've only been using KDE 4 full time for about a week, but I find I
> > accidentally select a kickoff tab nearly everytime I click the K-Menu
> > button.  Perhaps I do this because I haven't been using kickoff that
> long,
> > and need to train myself not to let my mouse go over the tabs.
>
> This I do not understand. The buttons are huge, so to miss them or leave
> them
> by accident is hardly possible. So if you open kickoff and hover to some
> tab
> you might hit the wrong one on your way to the right one, but that does
> not
> matter because you do not loose any time or clicks.
>
> The only way to accidentally change tabs I see is when one wants to click
> on
> the last item/bottom item on a tab. This still seems unlikely because the
> items in kickoff have a huge area to click on, so you would have to miss
> by
> more than 20px starting at the top of the last item. It becomes even less
> likely because the last item is scrolled up if it is not fully visible.
>
> One cannot accidentally change tabs by hovering another one when moving
> up,
> because if you do it at a reasonable speed, it will not be activated.
>
> The only thing that really takes time with the current kickoff is that you
> have to clear the search-field everytime and go back every single instance
> on
> the applications-tab. The good thing for me though is, that I do not need
> that tab anyway, because if you bump up your history to 10 items there
> will
> hardly be any application you have to start from the applications-tab.
>
> Sven
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