From kde-usability  Fri Aug 22 21:59:50 2003
From: Heinrich Wendel <sysop () heinospage ! de>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:59:50 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: K Menu Categories
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William Leese wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> Sorry for jumping from topic to topic, but I've come across something
> bothering when doing descriptions for the k menu: the categories.
> 
> The current categories found in KDE have some oddities which I've marked
> below.
>  
> Applications [1]
> Development
> Editors [2]
> Edutainment
> Games
> Graphics
> Internet
> Multimedia
> Office [3]
> PIM [4]
> Settings [5]
> System
> Toys
> Utilities
>  
> 1. Applications is home to various completely non-related applications,
> all of which have no trouble fitting in existing categories.
> 2. This category contains only text editors, all of which fall in the
> 'Utilities' category. Note that the Editors category only has 3
> applications.
> 3. Office holds all KOffice applications. By changing the name to
> Productivity we could group applications that currently do not strictly
> belong to the Office category, but are related in that they're often use
> for some form of personal administration (vs. company administration).
> 4. PIM is a category that sprung to life because of the kolab client
> efforts. All it's applications could easily be placed in Office (or
> Productivity).
> 5. Settings contains either utilities or kcontrol/kcontrol related
> applications. Having a settings category makes it easy for doing
> computer support, but also aids the user by being able to open the
> relevant 'application' from the K Menu instead of having to start a
> separate application first.
>  
> If we remove the oddities we're left with:
>  
> Development
> Edutainment
> Games
> Graphics
> Internet
> Multimedia
> Productivity
> Preferences*
> System
> Toys
> Utilities

I like that, but I would keep the name "Office", and also merge Toys and
Utilities.

>  
> * This will not be an application category, but rather an item under
> 'Other Actions'.
>  
> Which is remarkably similar to GNOME:
>  
> Development Tools
> Games
> Graphics
> Internet
> Multimedia
> Productivity
> System
> Utilities
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> - wvl
mfg, Heinrich
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