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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: New K-Menu layout suggestion
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-02-01 5:27:36
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On Friday January 31, 2003 10:52, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:47:12PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > I disagree.  It's large because it has a lot in it.
>
> Which is exactly the problem. Why can you not just have a few items in
> there, and provide a konqueror-based application startup hierarchy
> instead for all the other stuff ?

Because the KMenu is established and users are used to it.  Because menus 
are supposed to work like that.  Menus are consistently the one place in 
KDE where access to *everything* is given.  Alternatives full of pictures 
and UI handholding (like Kicker or KControl) are where you are supposed to 
pare down the options.

An analogy to what you're suggesting would be to have all KDE apps remove 
from their menus all but a few actions, and instead put access to all of 
them in new toolbars.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a
state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow
them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall
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