From kde-usability Thu Feb 10 14:17:07 2005 From: Fred Schaettgen Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:17:07 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Action menu for windows? Message-Id: <200502101517.07182.kde.sch () ttgen ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110804504221459 Hi, Two days ago I was talking to someone who's KDE popped up a strange message about a DCOP problem each time during startup. It was not ovious which application was responsible for it. So yesterday I wrote a small patch for kwin and ksysguard, which adds a new entry to the "Advanced"-menu of each window menu. It will open ksysguard and highlight the processes which has opened the window. The patch and a screenshot can be found here: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=20639 As expected, several people think it's pretty redundant. ksysguard doesn't tell too much about what the program is doing, so maybe it's really not of much use the way it is now. But if ksysguard or another small application could also list things like the opened files and network connection, this could help even less experienced users to figure out the reasons for some problems. Then in a comment on kde-apps.org, someone said that ksnapshot also doesn't integrate with the window menu, suggesting that ksysguard shouldn't do so either. But the question is why not? Couldn't we add an extensible "Action"-Menu to the window menu, which lists all applications that can operate on a process or window? This way, a window would provide a "context-menu" similar to the one of file system objects, so users will be used to the concept right away. The window action menu could contain commands like "Take picture", "Show process information", "Attach to debugger", "Open with package manager" and similar. Part of the contents of the "Advanced" menu could go there too maybe. Would this be helpful enough to justify a new submenu in the window menu? Fred -- Fred Schaettgen kde.sch@ttgen.net _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability