KMenu simplyfying

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e-gandalf

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Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 11:34am

KMenu simplyfying

Hi.

I just found http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=36413
It's one of many approaches to clear the KMenu, and rather a good one. Why?

Users use Kmenu for two things
1) Launch the application very often used
2) Find application that for task, that might exists but I never used it

So, today, it's equally easy to find my web browser and some tool like color picker. I need to navigate through the menu and at some nested level there's a link.

It's ok for the second task. It's natural that I must use more energy/time to find the tool that I never used before and I'm even not sure if I have it installed. (this is different to Windows because in full KDE I have around 120 apps in my KMenu, while in Windows by default I have around 30).
But it's totally not OK when I want to launch commonly used task.

I have three places where I can have a shortcut to launch my Office Writer - desktop, kicker, Kmenu.
Desktop is rarly used in Linux because I usually have many apps opened and I'd prefer not to minimize them all just to launch another. In Kicker I have my most used tools like browser, mail client, xchat, krusader and quanta. But not Amarok, OpenOffice, digiKam, Gimp etc.

So, I think that this idea solves the problem. I'd only like to mix it with beagle's fast search.

Any other thoughts?

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Rinse

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Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 1:44pm

to me it looks more like a mix between the windows start menu and the current k-menu.
And i don't see anything that the current k-menu does not offer:

often used apps appear on the top of k-menu
apps that you don't use often are in a menu hierarchy
if you want to open something without navigating through k-menu, simply type the name of it in the search bar on top of the applications section.

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e-gandalf

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Location: Poland

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Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 3:31pm

well, it doesn't work for me. On top of Kmenu I see only apps that I already opened today. It's not the same...

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Rinse

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Wednesday, March 15th 2006, 12:54am

then you should change the setting in kicker from 'most recent applications' to 'most used applications'

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e-gandalf

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Wednesday, March 15th 2006, 5:23pm

There's probably bug in KDE 3.5.1, because it doesn't work for me. I have Most Used Apps, and still, at the moment I see - Psi, Gimp and Azureus. I launched Azureus today for the first time in 2 months.

It's also possible that KMenu only lists the apps that I opened via KMenu, in this case, this idea is wider because it's about listing most launched apps, no matter if they were launched via KMenu, Kicker, Desktop icon or KLauncher.

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Rinse

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Wednesday, March 15th 2006, 8:39pm

Quoted

It's also possible that KMenu only lists the apps that I opened via KMenu

Correct

most kicker icons are shortcuts to the kmenu-items, so i guess those count as well.

Quoted

in this case, this idea is wider because it's about listing most launched apps, no matter if they were launched via KMenu, Kicker, Desktop icon or KLauncher.

ah ok

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