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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () zvw ! de>
Date:       2001-07-28 10:39:47
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On Saturday, 28. July 2001 01:21, Andreas Pour wrote:

> 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.

The "tool tip" (it's not a real tool tip text) could have a checkbox like 
some dialogs have that says "Don't show this again", so the user can switch 
it off quickly without searching the config option for it. And I would not 
call it "Start Menu", but something like "KDE Main Menu", because a user 
won't associate logout, lockig the screen, reading help files or configuring 
KDE with starting an app. I know many people who have problems associating 
the "start" button of Windows with the shutdown option contained in the menu.

-- 
While it's certainly possible for an app to figure out what other apps are
doing, it's bad for it to base its behavior on any of that information
because it has _no idea_ what the other app is doing.
(From a posting in comp.os.linux.development.system)

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