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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Revolutionary Change (kicker)
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-09-20 22:51:51
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Joe Mason wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:17:06PM +0200, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 September 2001 12:27, David Faure wrote:
> > > > http://dot.kde.org/1000016315/1000519118/ocean.jpg
> > >
> > > Looks great. This is funny. The first Windows program I wrote
> > > (and it's now a freeware) is ... an icon bar, looking just like that
> > > (actually very much inspired from OS2, with the small button besides
> > > the main icons, to open the drawers).
> > > I always said this was missing in KDE.
> > > Although it was there at some point when kicker could have drawers,
> > > afaik this isn't available anymore (or not very easily, one has to
> > > create a directory with the .desktop files in it, manually).
> > >
> > > I think it's great to be able to do this.... I'm not sure what the default
> > > should be though.
> > 
> > Wow, Charles, is this a 100% NET_WM compliant version of Window Maker?
> > 
> > Seriously, my opinion is that while this is a matter of taste a NextStep like 
> > UI clearly is a very bad default considering what new users comming from 
> > windows are used to.
> 
> I like the way Gnome does it, with a "Start" menu by default but the easy
> option for adding drawers to make the panel wharf-like.  It's a good path for
> getting new users to switch - if we put a start menu, but a few groups of
> common apps in drawers (say, an Internet drawer with KMail, Konqueror, etc)
> then they'll soon notice that it's much more convenient to go to the drawers
> and start converting.
> 
> Whatever we decide to do for the default, I can't wait to get my hands on this:
> lack of drawers is (was, I guess now) the only thing still making me itchy
> about KDE. 


I surely am missing something here, but you can drag any submenu of the K 
menu into kicker, 
and it will act as a drawer..

Or maybe I donī t know what you guys mean by drawer :-)

> 
> Joe
> 

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