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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Action menu for windows?
From:       Fred Schaettgen <kde.sch () ttgen ! net>
Date:       2005-02-10 14:17:07
Message-ID: 200502101517.07182.kde.sch () ttgen ! net
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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

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Fred Schaettgen
kde.sch@ttgen.net
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