From kde-usability Fri Aug 17 05:24:39 2001 From: Jim Conner Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:24:39 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Kicker report X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=99803239915713 There's going to be a Kicker Report 2 soon. I hope to have it done this weekend. I'm going to be compiling all the comments that everyone has been saying and sending to me. I hope to be able to send it to the list for everyone's review. Jim On Thursday August 16, 2001 4:43 pm, Eric E wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Sorry if I'm a late starter in this discussion, but I just read the kicker > report. Most of the points I thought were very good. I definitely agree > that the window-list arrow is a very confusing item, and needs to be > disabled by default. However, I do like the ability to have it there - > maybe it can be disabled by KPersonalizer? > > Also, I'd like to talk about this point ( 1-13) some more: > >Remove the "Preference" menu item from the menu that appears when one > > right clicks on the "grip" of an applet. Move it to the menu that appears > > when one right clicks on the applet itself. > > While I agree that having to find the grip to configure the taskbar applet > is confusing, I just wanted to be clear that we won't put that Preferences > action a menu that appears when you click a Taskbar ENTRY. This seems more > confusing to me - entries in that menu should all relate to the program > that the entry represents. > > On the subject of the main menu - I generally agree that they need to be > streamlined. I had my first look at XP, and there's almost nothing on the > main menu. It's all been pushed off to submenus. On the subject of naming > things, I think we need to veer away from logically categorizing things, > like putting all office productivity apps into a category called "Office", > and wait and be guided by how novices react to decide where those things > should go. > > I'm using Mandrake 8.0, and the out-of-the-box setup of KDE is that to use > xmodmap to set the windows key to F13, then map the main menu to F13. > Works great, and I don't see why KDE couldn't do this, or why KPersonalizer > couldn't help the user sort this out, depending on their keyboard. BTW, in > all the KDE packages I've ever used, Alt-F1 is the default to pop the main > menu. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > > Eric > -- 11:42pm up 24 days, 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Caldera eD2.4 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability