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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Why the K-Menu sucks
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2000-10-29 16:09:38
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On Sunday 29 October 2000 12:09, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> Sunday 29 October 2000 12:51 wrote Falk Brettschneider:
> > Matthias Elter wrote:
> > But I agree that application names often say nothing about what it
> > actually is.
> >
> > That's why I suggest to do it like this:
> > 'KMail    (EMail Client)'
> > 'CoolMail (EMail Client)'
I agree completely. That would be the way to go IMO.

> Bad. This approach doesn't make it possible to removed the application name
> in the common case that there is just one EMail client.
No, that's not bad. I think even if there is only one Mail client, the K-menu 
should say 'Appname (EMail Client)'.

I definitely vote for showing the app name in *any* case in the K-menu. IMHO 
the K-menu should contain the apps and thus the real names of the apps. If 
there is a (sometimes really needed) description along the appname, that's 
even better.

Very often I search for an app and simply don't find it because there is just 
a description that is (for me!) not intuitive. And if I'd like, for example, 
to start KGhostview I *always* stumble over 'PS/PDF Viewer'. Perhaps it's 
just me, but I doubt it.

Also, 'EMail Client' does not sound like a KDE Application but just like any 
app. Same goes for every other entry that does not have a 'K' in the name or 
does not say 'KDE ...'

Ciao,
  Michael

PS: And I said that as a KDE user because I work with it 10 times as long as 
I'm hacking on it.

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