Kmenu and KDE4
Billie Walsh
bilwalsh at swbell.net
Sat Dec 20 14:34:27 UTC 2008
Following the link given by Joe in his thread I found this golden nugget:
>
> What's the deal with the K menu? It's big and ugly!
>
> During the development of KDE 4.0, different approaches for a K menu
> (application launcher) were tried. Some projects, like Raptor, were
> ambitious but there was no way they could be completed on time. At the
> time, one developer ported SUSE Linux's application launcher (Kickoff)
> to the new KDE architecture. As it was the most ready and feature
> complete (not to mention the product of usability testing) it was
> chosen to be the default menu. If you don't like it, the traditional
> K-menu is available as well. Also, some alternative menu systems have
> been announced (Lancelot, Raptor), but at the time of writing they're
> still in development.
>
It's very obvious that the devs don't pay attention to any user lists.
They should. If they had they wouldn't have been so quick to choose
SUSE's Kickoff. There was a major flap when SUSE released it on the SUSE
users lists. The majority of SUSE users don't use it and hate it.
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