On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 07:34 -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: > On Monday 21 April 2008 09:30:17 pm Andrew Farris wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > The new kde-style menu responds to mouse-over, and there doesn't seem any > > > way to stop it. To get a sub-menu you have to click on the group member, > > > and if the item you want isn't there you have to click on the < button. > > > This is all very slow. I think it will bring a storm of criticism. > > > > > > Switching to the classic menu, I find that some sub-menus display over > > > the top of the main menu - not all sub-menus, just some of them. That's > > > probably a bug that should be reported. > > > > > > These are personal reactions, but interfere with my working comfort. > > > > I tried KDE4 and that is definitely my number 1 complaint with the new KDE. > > The new style menu is absolutely unusable as it is (if I wanted to do > > something that slow I would browse through the filesystem into /usr and > > double click the executable myself). > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> www.lordmorgul.net > > gpg 0x8300BF29 fingerprint 071D FFE0 4CBC 13FC 7DEB 5BD5 5F89 8E1B 8300 > > BF29 > > I agree as well, manually searching the application menu is painful. > > I had thought that the search was supposed to find applications that were > related to the search words, not just a name match. I was looking for the > display control to set up a dual monitor system. I thought I should be using > randr (which isn't on any of the menus to begin with). Trying to manually > search the menus is a huge pain, as noted. It is especially frustrating when > the item isn't there. When I searched for "video", I found nothing related to > the monitor. When I searched for 'monitor', I got 'System Monitor' > and 'Battery Monitor'. When I searched for 'display' I got the 'Display,' > which looks like it has randr built in. If I had been searching for a 'music > player', 'mp3 player', or just a 'player' I don't think I would have found > Amarok or Rhythmbox. > > Searches would be much more useful if they were done on a brief > description of the application (something like 'apropos' or 'man -k' at the > command line). Yes, that would be good. How about submitting a wish to bugs.kde.org? poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
