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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       JES <yez () home ! nl>
Date:       2001-07-29 17:19:12
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Good idea ! Best idea I read in all of these mails.

On Sunday 29 July 2001 19:02, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Maarten ter Huurne
>
> > On Sunday 29 July 2001 13:53, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > I just made the K button into a DCOPObject, and added methods to show
> > > and hide the menu. Perhaps on startup we could show, wait 2 seconds
> > > and hide. That would at least let the user know what that K button
> > > does.
> >
> > Users that are uncertain do not like things disappearing on them. Opening
> > the menu and not closing it would be better. However, it still disappears
> > on the first click anywhere else on the screen.
>
> One option I was thinking of was to have ktip do
> dcop kicker KButton showMenu
>
> The first tip could say:
>
> "Welcome to KDE. You can use the 'K' menu to find your way around. It's
> open in the bottom left of the screen." (well, better text than that ;)
>
> And then if they close ktip or go the the next tip:
> dcop kicker KButton hideMenu
>
> Rik
>
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