On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:13 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 02:30, Andrew Farris wrote: > >> Of course, it reminds me heavily of the (also disgusting and unusably slow) > >> Windows Vista new style menu system... which is no surprise as much of > >> KDE's design mirrors UI elements people find comfortable and familiar. (no > >> need to flame I admit I'm a gnome person already people) I gave KDE4 a > >> shot and I do like some of it, just not that menu. > > > > I don't know anything about Vista, but you may be right about similarities. I > > understand that there are now International(?) guidelines as to what > > constitutes usability. I suspect that many of us would argue with some of > > those guidelines. > > Probably so, but I think we could agree that Microsoft tends to do what > Microsoft plans to turn into an international guideline (case in point OOXML). > ;) As for the menu, its nearly identical in behavior where you first choose a > subfolder, then that subfolder's contents are displayed but the previous menu is > not. You must scroll inside the menu size rather than having the menu expand > for long lists, and to go back up the tree you have to click elsewhere. Its > very slow to work with. OTOH with the new KDE I find it nice to be able to type the first 2 or 3 letters of what I want and have it selected instantly. My problem with menus is that I can never remember where anything is unless I use it every day (and some of the arrangements are to say the least questionable), so this feature is a win for me. If there were a key combination that would open the system menu without the mouse, I could do the whole thing from the keyboard. Maybe there is and I just haven't found it yet. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
