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Subject: Re: New... in application launcher
From: "A.J. Venter" <aj () outkastsolutions ! co ! za>
Date: 2008-10-09 15:08:46
Message-ID: 868cfe70810090808l325dcf8fq9118dc790fa1fd82 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Hm, nice idea. Not sure if that wouldn't clutter up kickoff too much,
> though.
> How about having a runner for KRunner that reacts to the keyword 'new' and
> offers all kinds of document types (and their default app opening with an
> empty new document)?
This is an interesting idea, I like it, but I would go one further... this
brought up an idea in my head immediately,
our current kickoff has favorites and recent tabs, which people have their
choice among, but how about a "New" tab - I find the biggest problem I have
with kickoff is finding out where a package I just loaded put it's menu item
(this affects other menu programs like lancelot as well) searching finds me
the thing and I can then possibly favorite it - but it doesn't tell me where
it found it.
Having a tab to just show items added since the last time you opened kickoff
(or if that's to short, the last time you logged into KDE ?) that also
mentions in which category they were placed would be a great headache saver
in my view.
Of course, there is always that line between "too much" and "not enough"
when it comes to features but this one I think would really be useful,
especially for n00bs and actually give us a definitive edge over that other
OS's desktop where new apps get burried somewhere in the menu ... usually
under the name of the company that wrote them.
They ended up adding the "new applications" popup, and putting submenu's
with new entries and the new entries themselves in bold, which at least
helped one see where new stuff was put.
KDE doesn't really offer a way to do this a.t.m. but I think a tab would be
a nicer way to achieve the same.
Obviously this feature should only kick in after the SECOND log in, as the
first one is likely to have every package that came with the distro and they
shouldn't ALL be marked as "new".
Ciao
A.J.
--
A.J. Venter
Tel.: +27 21 554 5059
Fax: +27 11 252 9197
Outkast Solutions IT
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br> Hm, nice \
idea. Not sure if that wouldn't clutter up kickoff too much, though.<br> How \
about having a runner for KRunner that reacts to the keyword 'new' and<br> \
offers all kinds of document types (and their default app opening with an<br> empty \
new document)?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is an interesting idea, I like \
it, but I would go one further... this brought up an idea in my head \
immediately,</div><div>our current kickoff has favorites and recent tabs, which \
people have their choice among, but how about a "New" tab - I find the \
biggest problem I have with kickoff is finding out where a package I just loaded put \
it's menu item (this affects other menu programs like lancelot as well) \
searching finds me the thing and I can then possibly favorite it - but it doesn't \
tell me where it found it.</div> <div><br></div><div>Having a tab to just show items \
added since the last time you opened kickoff (or if that's to short, the last \
time you logged into KDE ?) that also mentions in which category they were placed \
would be a great headache saver in my view.</div> <div><br></div><div>Of course, \
there is always that line between "too much" and "not enough" \
when it comes to features but this one I think would really be useful, especially for \
n00bs and actually give us a definitive edge over that other OS's desktop where \
new apps get burried somewhere in the menu ... usually under the name of the company \
that wrote them. </div> <div>They ended up adding the "new \
applications" popup, and putting submenu's with new entries and the new \
entries themselves in bold, which at least helped one see where new stuff was \
put. </div><div>KDE doesn't really offer a way to do this a.t.m. but I think \
a tab would be a nicer way to achieve the same.</div> <div><br></div><div>Obviously \
this feature should only kick in after the SECOND log in, as the first one is likely \
to have every package that came with the distro and they shouldn't ALL be marked \
as "new".</div> \
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ciao</div><div>A.J. </div></div>-- <br>A.J. \
Venter<br>Tel.: +27 21 554 5059<br>Fax: +27 11 252 9197<br>Outkast Solutions IT<br><a \
href="http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za">www.outkastsolutions.co.za</a><br> A \
division of Global Pact Trading Pty Ltd.<br><br><a \
href="http://www.silentcoder.co.za">www.silentcoder.co.za</a> - Blog<br><a \
href="http://scartoonz.silentcoder.co.za">scartoonz.silentcoder.co.za</a> - ScarToonz \
webcomic<br>
</div>
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