Kickoff patch review

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi again,

So now. The patch at:

http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/03/kickoff/kdebase-workspace.diff

will do the next things:

- All that the previous patch did. (not forcing State_Active, so we get 
something like http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/03/kickoff/kickoff3.png), less 
aggresive.

- When searching, the bottom tabs are plain nosense, giving the idea that we 
could search in "last used items" or on "logout". So, 2 main changes when 
searching on this patch:

	- Select the 1st match if any. When we search the first match is selected for 
just pressing enter.
	- Hide the bottom tabbar.

The searching look is at 
http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/03/kickoff/kickoffsearch.png

A random view is at: http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/03/kickoff/kickoff4.png

From the previous discussions, we could say that the cluttering of the user 
eye is for me, not the best argument. Why ?, well it will depend of kickoff 
size, obsiously, in first case. And, we could say then that 
http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/03/kickoff/detailedview.png this clutters user 
eye, when nobody has filled a bug against detailed views yet because of this 
reason on the KDE history (afaik). I just think that LTR users will expect 
the contents to be at the left, exactly as they were before being hovered.

The strongest reason apart from that that I have for this thing getting in is 
consistency. I always bet for consistency, and giving our desktop a 
consistent look is a need I think.

So, please, since this patch gets too many new features for kickoff, I would 
ask for you to tell me what you would vote for it to get in, so I can 
precisely clean up the patch and just commit the parts that almost everybody 
agrees.

- New background look.
- Search hides tabbars (please note that instead of hiding, we could add 
another tabbar with only one tab "Search Results" so this would be more 
intuitive, despite that we would have less room for the results themselves).
- Search highlights the first match so users only need to click enter.
- Mouse tracking is strict. No item is hovered if the mouse is not over an 
item (except on the search, of course, if point 3 is accepted).
- Pressing Up/Down on keyboard when no selection is made selects the last and 
first items respectively.


So, that's it I think. Let me know your thoughts.


Bye and thanks,
Rafael Fernández López

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