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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] KMenu tidy up post KDE 3.0
From:       Chris Howells <chrish () gmx ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-01-20 14:12:12
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On Sunday 20 January 2002 1:14 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:

> large, utilities is large, games was large.  But multimedia is about the
> same size as koffice, as is network.  Why break those up?

They aren't masive no. But IMHO they are still a bit to large to have as just 
one menu.

> Konqueror in mail and news?  That's quite a stretch.

That was a mistake!

>  I also suggest not
> to make the arbitrary distinction between messaging and "instant"
> messaging.

Good point.

> This break up would leave no more than a few items per menu.  With only a
> few items per menu, and some hard to make distinctions between types, the
> result will be a harder-to-navigate menu.  So just leave it as one big
> Internet for now, I'd say.

OK, I'll see what it looks like.

> > Multimedia ->
> > 	Audio (xmms, kmidi, kscd, etc)
> > 	Video (aktion, kwintv, real player, etc)
> > 	Tools ( kmix, arts control, kmix v4lsetup, etc)
> > 	[Directly under Multimedia] (noatun, kaboodle, etc)
>
> More distinctions that are really hard to make.  Why isn't kmix audio?
> This menu really isn't that big either.  Just remove Timidity.

I'd probably start to agree with you there. Although notice that all the items 
in Audio are playback/recording utilities. That's why kmix isn't there.

> > Office ->
> > 	KOffice (KWord, KSpread, etc)
>
> Adding a level with no gain in navigability.

Probably agree.

- -- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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