From kde-usability Mon Mar 29 14:13:44 2004 From: "C. Gatzemeier" Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:13:44 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: [Usability] Re: Lightening up the XDG menu Message-Id: <200403291613.44259.c.gatzemeier () tu-bs ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=108056979310289 Am Montag, 29. März 2004 03:56 schrieb Boris Goldowsky: > > > > GNOME and KDE is installed on one computer - the menu becomes > > > > overcrowded > > Since I most often use GNOME, I've manually moved all KDE apps into > submenus within their categories -- so I can still use them when they > are the better solution, but each category menu is not so crowded. ...Hold on a second. Hmm, yes... IIRC XDG menu intended to cure the inconsist menues in different DEs, that used to do things at will. Let's not reintroduce the same kind of behaviour again, from a user's perspective, by hiding stuff away differently according to the DE. No, IMHO making the menu _easily_ customizable by each involved party, the distribution, the system admin, and individual users should be the solution. (not everybody changing the same setting but a hierarchy of settings so things are not lost with updates) Each level decides which app one would like to expose the most, but the user has the last say and might just drag up his emacs into the top shelf menu (from a otherwise rather unfortunate lowly branch). And the user should not have to do that again for each Desktop he tries. I am thinking app specific priority values. On the other Hand Desktops want to promote their own apps. That is ok, an extra menu featuring only the apps taged KDE/Gnome/etc. (with increased priority values to bring them up and condense the tree) might do that. Christian _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability