Kenneth Aar, Grafikern.no wrote:
Hi
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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!
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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org