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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2001-07-27 23:21:00
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Hi,

There are all nice efforts but I don't see them getting at the heart of
the problem.  Long ago I thought a good solution was just to put an
active tooltip over the KDE menu, with a cartoon-dialog-like link,
saying "Application Menu\nClick here to start".  Something like in
http://www.kde.com/devel/start.png (witness my poor drawing skills).  So
this thing would go away as soon as you hit a key or the mouse button,
and, of course, in KDE's grand tradition, would have to be configurable.

Ciao,

Dre

Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    A few people have told be to post thie to KDE artists, or KDE look or even
> KDE devel so I'm posting it to all of them. There has recently been some
> discussion on improving the usability of KDE as a result of the gnome
> usability study that sun did. One of the things that was raised was that the
> K menu button was just as ambiguous as the gnome foot, something which was
> cited as a problem for usability. A few suggestions have been made as to
> improve this aspect of KDE> One very good suggestion put forward was to make
> the icon wider, thus improving it's visibility on kicker. In that vein I've
> bashed a few pixels together and done some concept shots of what one might
> look like. Now, I'm no artist so these aren't real icons or anything, but
> they give you the idea. I'd also welcome other ideas as well. OK, you KDE
> veterans, don't freak out when you see the "start" ones. You can see them on
> a corner of my website I threw up for KDE, here:
> 
> http://lycadican.sourceforge.net/kde/

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