From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 21 20:17:36 2002
From: Chris Howells <chrish () gmx ! co ! uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:17:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] KMenu tidy up post KDE 3.0
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On Monday 21 January 2002 2:19 pm, aleXXX wrote:

> I very much second that.
> The windows start menu is always at least one level deeper (start-menu ->
> apps -> some group of apps -> search the damn entry which actually starts
> the app and doesn't show me a readme or whatever)
> compared to k-menu -> office -> kword
> Don't let's loose this advantage

> Don't know if it changed with XP, but before that all used the same way.
> The problem is also that each windows app doesn't simply add an entry to
> the start menu, but a whole submenu, containing install and uninstall
> items, readme, stuff, and somewhere the actual app. I don't think this can
> have changed with XP.

Hmm, this is a difficult one. To some extent, I actually like it the MS way :)

> Well, e.g. is Emacs an editor or a development environment ?

Editor :)

Hmm, actually I don't know where it is on the KMenu now since I don't install 
emacs on my systems ... I'll have to check that ;)

> I think menus shouldn't contain more than something like 10 to 15 items.

IMHO that's too long.

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