From kde-usability  Sun Nov 11 12:04:31 2001
From: Jim Conner <jconner83 () yahoo ! com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:04:31 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: KDE main menu
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=100548026804523

Well, in my K-Menu, there is a 'Find Files' listed there.  In KDE 2.2.1, 
Games has been broken down to separate sub-menus.  I'm not sure what you mean 
by 'large size menu items' if you mean fonts and icons, I think this can be 
changed in the Control Center.  There has been a KMenu usability study.  It 
should be listed under Kicker.  If you need more info, please let me know, 
since I'm the Kicker maintainer, I have all the text/html files of the 
reports.

Jim

On Sunday, November 11, 2001 6:50, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> I noticed from the Gnome usability study that a lot of users got confused
> with the size and complexity of the main menu.
>
> Has there been any discussion of what should be in the main menu WRT
> usability for new users?
>
> I use Mandrake, which plays around with the menu, inserting butt ugly icons
> etc., so I may not be in a good position to judge what the current state of
> play is. Anyway, my thoughts:
>
> 1. An option, on by default, to have large size menu items. (Cf. Windows).
> I guess this would require some subclassing of the KDE menu class.
>
> 2. A "find file" option in the menu. (See the Gnome study - people couldn't
> find the find!)
>
> 3. Consider moving applications to a separate submenu. This could be
> annoying, but my thought is that advanced users can edit the menu to have
> their favourite appmenus in the main menu.
>
> bw

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