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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KMenu tooltip
From:       William Leese <yatsu () wanadoo ! nl>
Date:       2003-08-24 7:40:14
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Sander Devrieze wrote:

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>Op zaterdag 23 augustus 2003 13:29, schreef Sébastien Laoût:
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>>Hello,
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>>Hum... Quite off topic thing :
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>>I propose to apply a background image on the KMenu button.
>>So, users can realize its importance and can clic to see it.
>>
>>I've joined my personnal configuration and you can see that my KMenu has
>>a "blue_wood_*.png" background picture (it's the only one that is pretty
>>with "green_blood_*.png" one : perhapse we must make more modern and
>>cool tiles ? ).
>>I dislike the background pictures in kicker (because quite uggly : all
>>applets are not transparent) but used with parcimony only in the KMenu
>>can be a good (usability and pretty) think.
>>
>>What do you think about ?
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>The intention is good but it's more difficult to recognize the icon because of 
>the clutter of the background image. Another proposal:
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Huh? So a user recognises that the icon is KDEs logo, that doesn't help 
him understand that it's a very special button. Also a background image 
does not necessarily make an icon less recognisable. What if this 
background was just a simple border?

>Another remark: it helps also if we reduce the number of application icons 
>kicker.
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It helps by reducing the chance of clicking on the kmenu on a whim. This 
is a very bad approach to guiding the user to the kmenu, because you're 
making other applications that were previously on kicker harder to 
access (now, i wounldn't mind seeing this done for the konsole icon 
however ;)

- wvl

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