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| Submitted: Jan 29 2006
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Description:
This is my idea about the new menu and desktop in KDE4:
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I don't like the typical vertical menu that Windows or actual KDE use, it's difficult to use with a laptop or just with the mouse, and it's always small. Why not try to innovate with a better accessibility for all the users? I suggest to use horizontal menus using the 100% width of the screen, why not? so we can see big icons easy to press into them.
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Gnome uses 3 menu buttons in the top panel: "Applications", "Places" and "System". I think this concept is right, but it uses too much space in the panel so Gnome needs to have another panel in the botton of the screen for the open apps. KDE users don't like it, if you maximize the browser in Gnome then you must be careful to press "Close" button in top-right corner, because there is the top panel.
KDE instead actually uses just one panel with a Kmenu button, but it's very confused and overdone. There are too much things together and it's not useful.
A possible solution? look at the pictures:
- Picture 1: We can see just one panel and a KDE menú button so we have all the space of the panel for open apps. But.. ¿just one buttom? ¿the same as now? let me continue.
- Picture 2: When mouse is over menu button (or click into it) the menu is expanded and three buttons appear: "Apps", "Places" and "System". And over the menu another button appears: "Exit", which let the user a easy way to terminate the sessión or switch off the computer. The expand action could be smoothly.
- Picture 3: When mouse is over a button an horizontal menu appears: big icons and good accessibility.
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More things:
- In the top of the desktop we can see "Actions" and "Contacts". Pressing in "Actions" could show a menu with the typical actions ("Create a document...", "New email", etc). "Contacts" could show a menu with Kontact contacts grouped by "friends", "family" and more. Each contact could show a submenu with "Mail to...", "Chat with...", "VoIP with...".
How to do those buttons in the desktop? I don't know, but I think it could be easy with Plasma, maybe?
- In picture 3 we can see an option called "Recents". It could show recent documents and recent URLs.
Note: This idea is based in the following picture:
http://www.centralti.com/edir/arquivos/workbar.jpg
I like the "Search for application" text box.
Comments?
License: GPL
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