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| − | ''Apps Menu Structure Proposal''. I'd like to make apps menu more fine-grained by introducing submenus | + | '''Apps Menu Structure Proposal'''. I'd like to make apps menu more fine-grained by introducing submenus |
==Internet== | ==Internet== | ||
===Web=== | ===Web=== | ||
*Konqueror | *Konqueror | ||
| + | *Firefox | ||
| + | *Opera | ||
*Akregator | *Akregator | ||
===File download and sharing=== | ===File download and sharing=== | ||
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*KTorrent | *KTorrent | ||
*KGet | *KGet | ||
| + | *KFtpGrabber | ||
===Communication=== | ===Communication=== | ||
*KMail | *KMail | ||
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===Play and Manage=== | ===Play and Manage=== | ||
*amarok | *amarok | ||
| + | *<videoplayers> | ||
*k3b | *k3b | ||
*<tag editors> | *<tag editors> | ||
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===Create and edit=== | ===Create and edit=== | ||
*Kino | *Kino | ||
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| + | '''Explanation''' | ||
| + | *if several apps fulfill the same function (i.e. konqueror, opera, firefox), then their title should be in form of %function% - %appname%: "Web-browser - Konqueror" | ||
| + | *We need a special entries in .desktop files determining the priority (Menu-Priority, Menu-Priority-KDE, Menu-Priority-Gnome). | ||
| + | **Because the order is important | ||
| + | **apps with Menu-Priotity above 100 constant could be visually separated | ||
| + | by the line (they are the main apps in the category) | ||
| + | **apps with Menu-Priotity below 10 may be hidden at all (i.e. they are rarely used by an average user) | ||
| + | **If category has only 1 item, the item should be displayed instead of | ||
| + | category | ||
| + | **Statistics is needed for this (simple voting?) | ||
| + | *'Utilities' category isn't needed at all. For example, 'root terminal' should be in System. | ||
| + | *Plasmoids: a lot of small apps need to be turned into plasmoids. | ||
| + | **charselect should be callable from anywhere but K-Menu | ||
| + | **kcalc -- the same | ||
| + | **dictionary applet | ||
| − | + | I like the way desktop widgets are displayed in Mac OS X (easy accessible any moment - e.g. clock, calendar, calc) | |
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Critisism I recieved from kde-devel@ so far: | Critisism I recieved from kde-devel@ so far: | ||
| − | + | *.... submenus are bad. They do not seem very usable to me, especially when the structure is not evident: ... | |
| − | + | **so it's better to look through all 10-20 entries (possibly in in each | |
| − | so it's better to look through all 10-20 entries (possibly in in each | + | category) before finding app that you need? |
| − | category) | + | **there should be no more then ~5 items in each category |
| − | before finding app that you need? | + | |
| − | + | *This breaks traditional alphabetical order... | |
| − | alphabetical order is of small value when user doesnt know the name of the | + | **alphabetical order is of small value when user doesnt know the name of the |
| − | app he is looking for. | + | app he/she is looking for. |
| − | + | And this is said to be false: "the menu is for newcomers, experienced users use 'Search' field anyway." | |
| − | anyway. | + | |
Apps Menu Structure Proposal. I'd like to make apps menu more fine-grained by introducing submenus
Contents |
Explanation
by the line (they are the main apps in the category)
category
I like the way desktop widgets are displayed in Mac OS X (easy accessible any moment - e.g. clock, calendar, calc)
Alternatively, instead of 'Office' we could use 'Desktop Publishing',
putting
'Groupware (Kontact)' into 'Internet' +merge 'Graphics' to 'Multimedia':
Critisism I recieved from kde-devel@ so far:
category) before finding app that you need?
app he/she is looking for.
And this is said to be false: "the menu is for newcomers, experienced users use 'Search' field anyway."
KDE TechBase 