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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: System Settings categorisation overhaul
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2009-10-05 18:17:18
Message-ID: hadd77$jjn$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> In practice what I suggest is the following: 
> 1) Put the search box somewhere obvious, above the categories, but
> /inside/ the white frame, to make clear it's part of the game and not
> some external "I'm never gonna use it" accessory. Give keyboard focus
> to it, invite the user to try it out.

How do you propose to deal with people that just want to look around and 
see what is available? I suppose you still have the list somewhere, how 
do you envision that?

I'm not sure how well it would work, but one possibility might be to 
present a 'cloud' of top-level categories with search in the middle. 
Each click takes you to a new cloud of sub-topics. We should allow there 
to be multiple paths by which to reach a particular module.

-- 
Matthew
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