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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: New K-Menu layout suggestion
From:       Uno Engborg <uno () webworks ! se>
Date:       2003-02-01 22:14:40
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On Saturday 01 February 2003 22.17, John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:45:32AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > all the applications, and I've never seen a user complain "The K Menu has
> > too many apps, please cut it down drastically."  In fact, I've only seen
>
> Users tend not to complain about such things. Are you seriously trying
> to equate "no complaints received" with "sufficiently usable for our
> target audience" ?
>
> > If you think it's difficult to find common apps in the K Menu, then the
> > answer is to supply an alternative to the K Menu.  Just as we have
> > toolbars to highlight the common tasks of a menubar, why don't you supply
> > us some application bar to highlight the common tasks of the K Menu?
>
> If an application has 12 menus, and 30 submenus from those menus,
> wouldn't you agree that there is a problem, and that problem is not in
> any solved by the addition of a toolbar ?


Perhaps we need to make the menus searchable somehow.
From what I understand  Maya ( http://www.aliaswavefront.com/) uses that kind 
of solution. Anybody who have used it and can tell what its like? 

Regards
Uno Engborg
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