Hi!
I was going to write about my first impressions... but since you started it.
On 12/8/06, Michael Schueller
Am Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 18:21 schrieb John Meyer:
I'm kinda digging it, just for the compactness of the menus.
No!
Klick right on the menue to change back to old style...
Thanks! This is just what I was looking for - I had been looking for it a long time. I just could not figure what selection to make where. Until you confirmed that it must be one of those and then I just tried. Why I hate it? Those of you that designed it, please read through - you still have done quite good job in trying change the menu. Please read and do not hate me for saying this. Good points: - It looks good! - It tries reduce the clutter by showing only parts of it at a time. The bad: - Usability The bad things that affect the usability are size, mouse usage and confusing split of items together with large number of items. The limited size means that you have a scroll bar in the menu! That's makes selecting programs very frustrating. Also the fact that the sub-menus do not open if you hover over them with the mouse - you actually have to click on it to open. Just try to "surf" around the menu for some time (for instance to get the feel what you have there, or to find some particular program). Just count the mouse clicks (and compare to the traditional menu) while you are waiting for the cool animation on a slow computer. The tabs open with hovering, so why can't the sub menus? Actually, in "Configure - KDE Panel - Menus" it is selected that "Open (K) menu on mouse hover". Not sure what it means, but what happens is that I used to get the cool hover effects from the icons but the menu didn't open. And the sub menus do not open. But the tabs do open. Confusing. (Somewhere during this, I lost the hover effects from the icons - I thought it is the check box on "Configure - KDE Panel - Appearance" ... but that is checked.) Favorites and history. These are both dynamic sub views to the applications menu. So, in effect you have same programs in the same menu in 3 different places. I do understand what the difference between these is... favourites removes the need to manually group the favourite programs, from history you'll find the obscure program you just started and everything is in the Applications. But 3 places - that's a bit too much. And still, why are these separated with the computer-tab... which actually seems to have some programs there also! So 4 places. Where was that configuration tool that I used last week? And then the Leave. Is leave the correct term? I've never heard that anybody would leave a OS. Well, ok on this list many people have been heard to say that they'll leave SUSE after the MS deal ;-) Maybe that's what the leave stands for? The Leave-menu has 8 options (+ the scrollbar). Switch user brings up another two. Start operating system another 3 (from which one is floppy, even though I do not have a floppy drive). Logout brought up another dialog asking for confirmation. How accidentially do you get to the logout on leave menu on the SUSE-menu? Locking results in a dialog asking for the password, but at the same time offering to log in as another user. So what is the difference to the switch user that locks the screen? And then shutdown, restart and further down another restart and then in between those two "pause" selections. I mean leaving SUSE really is hard ;-) Again, I know what those all mean, but I will have to teach this to my wife and children. So, I'm back to the old KDE menu. Submenus open just by hovering, no scrollbars, I can easily surf around the submenus and find things, shutdown has less options. -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org