From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 22 08:02:08 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:02:08 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Detailed menus: a solution for 3.1
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101168675530367
MIME-Version: 1
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--OaZoDhBhXzo6bW1J"


--OaZoDhBhXzo6bW1J
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:59:36AM +0100, Rob Kaper wrote:
> Just had an idea on how we could solve the detailed menu entries with
> descriptions for 3.1.
>=20
> While a user uses the k-menu, the rest of the panel is pretty useless,
> especially the application icons. We could use the panel area to display
> more detailed information about an application, keeping the menus tidy and
> yet providing a nice way to show extra information, in a place that is
> always the same for the user.
>=20
> See http://capsi.com/~cap/snapshot-kmenu.jpg for a crude attempt to make
> this work.
>=20
> I think it should be sufficient to just use the application buttons area,=
 it
> is big enough and keeps items that might have some use visible, such as t=
he
> taskbar.

Nice idea; but my kicker is competely full, and looking around the office I=
 am
not the only one. Mine also autohides.

--=20
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
et
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

--OaZoDhBhXzo6bW1J
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE8TRyACojCW6H2z/QRAvCHAJwO/ViZ1bnn1dayjVFTE5SndGLYSwCfR8q2
U7WCnudav+YOUNiG63XkCe0=
=QFPv
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--OaZoDhBhXzo6bW1J--