Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.3) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages i think feature to place the most used (or the most recently used) menu actions on toolbar would be nice. for example: i often need to select char encoding in kate, konqueror - but only koi/cp1251/utf8 and kate toobar is only half filled w/ icons - the residuary space could be used for these commands of course the other solution for this particular example is ability to assign shortcuts for charsets - i'll also post such proposition - but, as a whole, the behaviour proposed in this report (activated by default) would facilitate user when working w/ all kde apps. (one click is always fater then finding needed action in the crowded menus...)
self modifying UIs are _very_ controverse. And the toolbar editor is there for you to modify. I guess we could support your wish in ordering the provided actions by past use.
we already have self modifying UIs - File->Recent files. maybe there can be extra menu (beside File, Edit, etc) w/ recently used commands of course, reordering long menus is better then nothing...
If we did this, people would probably hate it to have the toolbar buttons switching around all the time, I think. Microsoft tried this with the menu items in MS Word and predictably, people hated it. The only way that dynamic UIs can work is if the dynamic area is itself well delineated and separated from everything else. You don't want the things that are typically fixed to suddenly be non-fixed. It freaks people out.