Summary: | Layout is awkward in positions other than bottom-left screen corner | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Colin <colinnkeenan> |
Component: | Application Launcher (Kickoff) | Assignee: | David Edmundson <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | kdeu, mwnew, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs, subscriber |
Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
Version: | 5.5.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Colin
2015-12-25 00:52:39 UTC
Another related issue concerning the usability of Application Launcher in positions other then bottom or top of the screen is the keyboard-navigation getting odd: When at the bottom of the screen, tabs and menus can intuitively be navigated using the arrow keys. When put to the (left) side of the screen, you have to use the left/right-keys to go up or down and the up/down-keys to get left or right. > Searching from the Application Launcher is very difficult if it's on top of the screen both because it's a long travel from activating the window to clicking in the search box You can start typing right after activating the launcher, there is no need to click in the search box. The mouse path to the search box is equally as long when the menu is at the bottom, and it doesn't really matter since you don't have to click in it. > Why does it alternate between a search box and showing the user@host? This seems like a very weird design choice, or a bug. If you open the launcher it shows "type to search", if you start typing, then delete all characters, it shows user@host. When you move around with the mouse hovering over different entries it randomly switches between both texts. It would be better to always show user@host in its own line, or next to the username, or don't show it at all. But don't randomly change the field, it's distracting. (In reply to Martin Weinz from comment #1) > Another related issue concerning the usability of Application Launcher in > positions other then bottom or top of the screen is the keyboard-navigation > getting odd: > When at the bottom of the screen, tabs and menus can intuitively be > navigated using the arrow keys. > When put to the (left) side of the screen, you have to use the > left/right-keys to go up or down and the up/down-keys to get left or right. I'm of this opinion, too, the keyboard shortcuts are not intuitive, since left/right goes up/down, but i see no better way of setting the keyboard shortcuts, since both the tabs and the lists are vertical. The issue could be avoided by not showing the tabs vertically, instead showing the tabs horizontally in the same way that the as the normal launcher does when placed on the bottom. This bug can be transformed into two wishes - like Ability to change search bar and Favorites, Applications... menu buttons position. Can you see if this is better for you with the new Kickoff UI in Plasma 5.21 (currently in git master)? The layout was re-done which means there's a chance it got fixed in the process. Mine appears in the top-left corner and it feels fairly ergonomic to me. Thanks! Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! I've been using it in the previously only usable way for so long that I'm no longer interested enough to test upcoming versions or even the current one. I'm just leaving the menu in the bottom left position. Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! |