Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.92) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux KDE is going great and I love the new features, however one feature that has not been updated is the Kmenu. With all the cool ideas spreading around kde-look.org, I wonder why you guys haven't come up with a new Kmenu yet? Take a look at this: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=19908 That's an awesome Kmenu!!! It would really make your gui look better if you did something cool like that, what do you say?
changes to the k menu? sure. like that? no. there may be lots of cool ideas floating around out there but i have yet to see one that's original, really usable and/or has a patch attached to it ;) i you have specific requests for the menu, other than the link you pointed to, please add them to this BR and i'll certainly consider them.
Thanks for the reply. Let me advise you that I am not anywhere close to being an artist or developer so I don't have the talents that you guys have. I can't draw anything. Now, I don't want you to copy the idea that I posted above, the above was just an example of all the ideas there are in several places over the net, and also an example that more can be done with the Kmenu. My personal opinion is that the existing Kmenu looks the same as it has over the last several versions and is the only thing that hasn't gotten a facelift. I think it would be really cool for a new kmenu, whatever it is that you guys decide the kmenu should be.
Sorry but here is another example (and only example) maybe I should try to draw something? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13101
Then don't draw. Express your wish the way you can. Writing what you want, for instance, is a good approach.
You have a point, I will do the best I can. 1. I would put the run dialogue box within the kmenu. For example, you won't have to click on run and then bring up the text box, the text box would already show. (Very minor though) 2. I feel that the Kmenu icon should be either rectangular or oval. For beginners, the K icon doesn't stand out to be what you want to click on to get your main menu. If it was a different shape, whether that is rectangle, oval, or what have you, to make it stand out as to what you want to click on to bring up the menu. Text, such as "Menu" "Applications" "Go" or "Launch" would suffice for making it stand out, but there may be other ways of achieving this. 3. The user should be able to choose between the original Kmenu or the new one, depending on their preference. The original would be the standard one we have now, and the other option would be a new one. 4. Some ideas for the new kmenu would be one of the following. First, perhaps most of the menus are hidden. Right now, as far as Fedora is concerned, I have "All Applications" and "Actions" on mine personally. While All Apps and Actions would still be there, instead of mousing over to two or three sub menus to get to a certain app, list all the groups right there. So right on the Kmenu, we have Games, Office, Internet, and Sound, and All Applications, for example. Hovering your mouse over Games, unhides the games menu automatically so underneath it you have a list of your games. (Note: No submenus opened on the left or right side). If the list is above 10 icons, then it would have an option "More" that would actually open a submenu on the left. Note that the most recent apps would always be unhidden on the top. Another thing is that the Kmenu should be more "curvy". The rest of the desktop has beautiful curved edges, and while the kmenu we have now does too, it's not to the same extent as the rest of the gui. Another way of doing this new Kmenu is perhaps to make the Kmenu appear in two columns, rather than one. On the left perhaps a most used applications listing, and also an "important apps" listing that has your control center and things like that, and on the right the applications that are optional that you installed yourself. 5. Where it says "KDE 3.4" on the side, that should be somewhere else, because that makes it seem too much like Windows. Either on the top or the bottom would work, or the user can put it back on the side (or remove it) if they so choose. Anyhow, I appreciate you giving me the chance to express myself. I feel that the biggest things are the Kmenu icon and the kmenu layout. I think the new Kmenu icon with KDE 3.4 is great, however my wife, whom is inexperienced, took five minutes to find the "start menu" as she called it, and I had to point it out to her. I wonder if any other new users did the same thing? Note that recent Linspire 5.0 screenshots have a Kmenu that stands out, but it looks really ugly and stands out so much that it takes your concentration off of anything else on the screen, I don't have in mind anything THAT extreme. On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 03:22 +0000, Thiago Macieira wrote: > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100483 > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From thiago kde org 2005-03-01 04:22 ------- > Then don't draw. Express your wish the way you can. > > Writing what you want, for instance, is a good approach.
Hi, I find very unattractive the proposals seen in this bug report. But yesterday I tested Suse liveDVD 9.3 and kmenu it's really good looking and very neat. In my installations Kmenu is huge and entries are too near disallowing fast visualitzation. The too many entries maybe is only distro related sometimes I arrange it by hand but the default is very...let's say that usability word: bloated. In fact Suse's Kmenu it's slightly modified only, not a new Kmenu. Icons are displayed bigger and there's more space between text. It also could be more than one Kmenu but for me the one we have now it's good enough. Thank you anyway, Pau
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