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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Sheldon Lee Wen <tormak () home ! com>
Date:       2001-07-27 23:36:15
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> There are all nice efforts but I don't see them getting at the heart of
> the problem.  

Ok. I don't agree though. It may not be the perfect fix, but I don't think 
there is one. However, the tooltip in your pic is a very good idea. I think 
that for usability purposes it would help to have some of these in areas that 
are not as intuitive as the could be, and make them pop up more or less right 
away. You are right that you would have to be able to turn it off though, or 
at least change the delay to something slower. Someone might want to keep 
them on as a reminder, but not want to see them for things that they have 
learned. I think together, a larger and more obvious "start button" and the 
tooltip would help this area tremendously.

Cheers,
Sheldon.

> 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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