QuickLaunching : some ideas to improve user experience

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 06 September 2008, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> We can have a auto hide-panel (on the left or on the right depending of
> what is the easiliest reachable for the user) and put on it :

i don't know if this would make sense as a default, but it would certainly be 
a nice possibility to offer.

which means you have a few plasmoids that would need to be written, which 
you've listed

> - for an equivalent to the leave tab we can add a dedicated popupApplet
> Based Plasmoid  that  show a dialog with all the action the user can do
> (shutdown, leave, hibernate, etc)

don't we already have this, it just need configuration to allow one to show all 
the buttons? 

or are you simply thinking of merging the top level tabs of kickoff into the 
bar? if so ... that would be very easy indeed by just making a new applet 
under workspace/plasma/applets/kickoff/ that shows a set of icons as the 
interface.

> - for the search stuff, perhaps the idea is just to put a krunner inside
> a popupapplet

i'd like to see such an applet regardless; i'd also like to see runners 
avaialble in kickoff itself.

> For discoverabilty purpose perhaps we need that auto hide panel are
> showed the first seconds than plasma start ?!

they should be already; at least they are shownfor their first paint. we could 
probably extend that to a second or two pretty easily if we wanted.


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