Kmenu and KDE4

Billie Walsh bilwalsh at swbell.net
Mon Dec 22 02:02:29 UTC 2008


Art Alexion wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2008 20:05:32 Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> fwiw, I rather like kickoff - the only thing wrong with it is that you
>> shouldn't have to click on anything to go down a level in the menu.
>>     
>
> IMO, all menus are more clicks than one should have to do for apps they use 
> daily.  Menus should only act as an archive for launching programs you rarely 
> use.  Launching a program should be a one click exercise.  I suppose 
> the "favorites" menu that opens with Kickoff is some acknowledgment of this, 
> but it is still one click too many.  The rest of Kickoff takes the too many 
> clicks complaint to the absurd extreme.  But that's just for me, and people 
> who work like me.
>
>   

That's why the Quick Launch applet is/was one of my favorites in KDE 
3.x. The programs that I use everyday immediately available on the task 
bar one click away.

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