Projects/Plasma/AppsMenuReorganization: Difference between revisions

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Apps Menu Structure Proposal. I'd like to make apps menu more fine-grained by introducing submenus

Internet

Web

Konqueror
Firefox
Opera
Akregator

File download and sharing

aMule
KTorrent
KGet
KFtpGrabber

Communication

KMail
Kopete
Konversation
Kontact
Knode

Connectivity

KPPP
KRDC
KRFB
<monitoring apps?>

Multimedia

Play and Manage

amarok
<videoplayers>
k3b
<tag editors>

Create and edit

Kino
Audacity

Graphics

View and Manage

Okular
Gwenview
Digikam

Create and edit

Krita
Kolourpaint
Gimp

Education

Blinken

Lingustic

KHangMan
KWordQuiz
Parley

Math

KmPlot
KAlgebra
Kig

Science

KStars
Kalzium
KTurtle
Step

Office

Okular
Kwrite

Groupware

kontact
KOrganizer
KTimeTracker (remove from menu -- present as plasmoid)
Kalarm (remove from menu -- present as plasmoid?)
KAddressBook
<Syncing apps>
<other kdepim apps>

OpenOffice.org

<openoffice apps>

KOffice

<koffice apps>

Desktop publishing

scribus
kile
lyx

System Tools

Konsole
KSysGuard
KSystemLog
Strigi search
KSnapShot
<backup app>
<Accessibility apps>

Configuration

<...>

Engineering

kompare

Programming

KDevelop
KCachegrind
<Version control tools?>

Web-development

Quanta

Translation

Lokalize

CAD

Math

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

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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==
 ===Web===
 *Konqueror
+*Firefox
+*Opera
 *Akregator
 ===File download and sharing===
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 *KTorrent
 *KGet
+*KFtpGrabber
 ===Communication===
 *KMail
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 ===Play and Manage===
 *amarok
+*<videoplayers>
 *k3b
 *<tag editors>
-*<videoplayers>
 ===Create and edit===
 *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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-Special entry in .desktop files determining the priority
-*The order is important (Menu-Priotity field)
-*apps with Menu-Priotity below some constant could be visually separated
-by the line
-*A lot of apps may be hidden, we should decide how to do this
-(Menu-Priotity threshold)
-*If category has only 1 item, the item should be displayed instead of
-category
-*'Utilities' category isn't needed at all. For example:
--'root terminal' should be in System
-*Plasmoids:
-**charselect should be callable from anywhere but K-Menu
-**kcalc
-I like the way desktop widgets are displayed in Mac OS X
 Critisism I recieved from kde-devel@ so far:
-> .... submenus are bad. They do not seem very usable to me,
+*.... submenus are bad. They do not seem very usable to me, especially when the structure is not evident: ...
-> 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...
+*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.
-remember, the menu is for newcomers, experienced users use 'Search' field
+And this is said to be false: "the menu is for newcomers, experienced users use 'Search' field anyway."
-anyway.