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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?

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...

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.