Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

["Bruce A. Mallett" <bam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:
> Hi
>
> <rant>
>
> I am horrified by the user unfriendliness of the new KDE start menu. I
> think I am going insane, searching like a maniac trying to find apps.
> What was once a piece of cake is now a nightmare!
>
> </rant>
>
> How do I remove it and replace it with the old "inefficient" menu?
>
> If someone could point me to the discussion/arguments of how this was
> supposed to be easier to use I would be greatfull.
>
LOL.  I'm amazed I've not seen much discussion of this new menu
structure yet.  Then again I'm equally guilty as I've kept quiet.

Yes, I too don't care for it.  I think that the SUSE team did a great
job on restructuring the Gnome menu for SLED10 (and now in 10.2) but the
implementation in KDE leaves much to be desired.  For one thing on a
slow graphics card (which, due to ATI's fglrx driver not yet recognizing
Xorg 7.2 currently describes mine) the new menu is horrible to watch
slowly panning back and forth in a rather cramped area (yeah I know, you
can resize it).

I find the Gnome implementation nice because, when I'm going to the menu
to find something, all my attention is devoted to the task of finding
that thing.  So filling the screen with a large menu and then quickly
drawing my attention to subareas (either by incremental search or
categories) makes a lot of sense and helps me locate whatever I'm
looking for.  The new KDE menu on the other hand makes me scroll back
and forth in a small area, divides things into tabs which I cannot
modify nor add to (first thing I tried was RMB'ing to see the "add new
tab" menu, which was not there), and in general leaves me feeling
frustrated.

I switched it back to the old style (RMB on the start to see the option).

        - Bruce

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