From kde-usability Mon Feb 18 20:01:03 2002 From: Adrian Codre Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:01:03 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: menu coloring X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=101409229508476 On Monday 18 February 2002 16:55, Jono Bacon wrote: > - We need to ensure that the menu doesnt look too cluttered when a user > uses lots of programs - i.e - limit the number of entries. > Yes, and maybe coloring in function of the number of time the program was= =20 lunched: if the program was lunched 1 time the color will be light blue=20 and if the program was lunched say 30 times the color will be dark blue > - We need to consider a very subtle way of conveying this - may= be > putting a little alarm clock or something on the right side of the imag= e - > colouring the line may be a bit intrusive. another aproach is to color the menu after x seconds from when it was ope= ned=20 or color when was opened and erase the color after x seconds > > - It might be an idea to group the recently used programs at th= e > top of each submenu and recolour them. This would mean the user can go > stright to the top of the menu to load a recently used app without havi= ng > to scan through the menu for the relevent colours. > > Jono i don't think it is a good idea --=20 "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all... and in the darkness bind them" _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability