Kmenu and KDE4

[Billie Walsh]

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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