From kde-usability  Fri Aug 29 20:40:12 2003
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:40:12 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: kmenu and its application repository
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On Friday 29 August 2003 22:26, Tom Chance wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this list, so apologies if this has been discussed
> before. I've tried to find this suggestion in the archives and haven't
> really found any, so here goes...
>
>
> Proposal:
> Have an application repository for KDE that is seperate from kmenu.
> kmenuedit then uses this repository, as do all other KDE apps that would
> use the kmenu repository.
>
>
> Justification:
> At the moment, kmenu acts both as an application menu, and as a kind of
> repository for applications that KDE knows about, and can associate with
> file types, icons, etc. This means that you need an application in kmenu to
> be able to conveniently "refer" to this application when performing various
> KDE operations.
>
> Now I recently streamlined kmenu to only include applications I run from
> kmenu, but this then had the effect of ruining a lot of my file type
> associations, and makes running the programs from the ALT+F2 dialogue more
> of a pain. So I basically either have to have a very cluttered kmenu, which
> is confusing for myself and other less techy users, or I have an ordeal
> working with other parts of KDE.
>
> Would it not make sense to have an application repository that kmenu, the
> "edit file type" dialogue, and other components use and edit? Then KDE
> components that use it can show to the user as much or as little as is
> appropriate in the given situation. So the kmenu shows what the user wants
> in the menu, but upon editing an item in the menu, you can see all the
> applications that KDE is aware of.

This is indeed an interesting question. I'm playing with the idea to let the 
current K-menu be the "system menu" and then offer the option to use a 
separate "custom menu" as start menu.

In the menu-editor you would then be able to compose your custom menu by 
selecting entries from the system menu.

Cheers,
Waldo
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