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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: AW: Changing of GNOME's Menu Structure
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       2000-03-03 12:37:57
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On Fre, 03 Mär 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > On Fre, 03 Mär 2000, Harri Porten wrote:
> > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > I have installed recent SuSE's KDE 1.1.2 kompletely. When I open some
> > > > of the items mentioned above I have to click 4 times "more" to get to
> > > > the last item. And as the number of programs will increase
> > > > dramatically (I hope) we need a finer subclassification - and
> > > > sometimes more selfexplaining names of the items.  Example kdf. The
> > > > explaining bubble helps of course, but you have to move the cursor on
> > > > the item to get it.
> > > >
> > > > I suggest the following rule for subclassing: a menue-item should
> > > > usually never contain more items than can be displayed on ONE screen
> > > > eventually in multiple columns (even on 15')  .
> > >
> > > Tell that to SuSE ;)
> > >
> > > Seriously. Of course, menues should not be crowded. But it can't be
> > > really ruled out as every user is free to install whatever and how many
> > > applications he can. As we don't know all current or future apps we
> > > have a problem.
> > >
> > > Apart from *trying* to limit the number of items in each menu per
> > > design we *have* to implement a mechanism to scroll or split them.
> >
> > I don't know if we talk about the same thing: But since Qt 2.1 (some
> > snapshot) a popup menu automatically arranges the items in multiple
> > columns if they don't fit into one column anymore.
>
> Yeah, and fill the complete screen in kicker's file browser... I like
> the scrolling
> of Mac and win98 way better. Even the way motif does it (or does it
> netscape?) with
> this More... -> item is easier to handle with 2000 items. I know it's
> partly kicker's
> to not block 2000 items from beeing shown, but the several items thing
> isn't easy to
> use I must say.

Tell this Matthias E. - he implemeted it :-)

-- 
Reggie (reggie@troll.no)

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