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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Description (Name) in K-menu (Was: KDE3 defaults)
From:       Stian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8iland?= <stian () soiland ! no>
Date:       2003-08-17 0:51:30
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On 2003-08-16 21:32:49, Neil Stevens wrote:

> > - kmenu: change K Menu format to 'Description (Name)'
> > The names are almost completely meaningless to new users. This improves
> > the ability to scan descriptions.
> This option is not practical. The problem is most descriptions are long or 
> identical.   Also it makes the menu way too big.

Why? The problem is then the descriptions, not to use the descriptions. 

I'm currently using Description (Name), and I love it. Why? Because I
don't know what the hell things like noatun, kaboodle, kate, kedit,
wkrite, kugar, kit or koota is about until I've started them and used
them a couple of times.

Since names in KDE tend to start with a k, this makes things worse, as
the hotkey feature (pressing the first letter of something in a menu)
won't be of much help.

In addition, sorting by description would group together programs in a
category that basically does the same thing. That way, users would be
encouraged to try all of them instead of just sticking with the one 
he first discovered as a media player.

The problem is that some of the descriptions that are way to long (more
mouseover-like descriptions than in-menu descriptions), and that would
be easily fixed. 



Btw, what's the difference between kde-usability@mail.kde.org and
kde-usability@kde.org? Why do both addresses work, and why don't the
mailinglist software remove duplicate references?

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