Le jeu 09/10/2003 à 12:50, Duncan a écrit : > Svetoslav Slavtchev posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > > it could be in a sub menu "install more software", > > which uses the menu structure of the main menu, > > has nice icons, and a good description > > I like this idea. Have one entry on the menu that leads to another copy > of the menu, as suggested.
beurk ! In all usability test you will see that you should avoid more than 3 level in menu. Another sub menu could put 4 level and even 5 level ! tooo much. And you will decide which apps to put ? > > Note that menu right-clicking would be a function of the environment used. > KDE, the Mdk default, may well (probably will, as the current menu is > comparable to the Win95 menu at this point, and folks used to W98+ > functionality with dynamic right-clickable reorganizeable menus would > find it useful) include right click functionality of their own at some > point. I don't believe patching Mdk's KDE to include install, therefore, > is a very good idea. That's the problem. mdk support kde AND gnome. If kde have a feature that gnome doesn't have it's not good at all and then mdk galaxy doesn't need to be done. > However, having as one entry a nested copy of the main menu layout, with > all possible entries on it, for (un)installation, would be manageable > using the current interface. All it would require would be some more text > format .mnu files under /usr/lib/menu, and perhaps loading a few more > icons, tho not many as many of them are used multiple times as is. 1°/ disk space 2°/ complexity when parsing this 3°/ menu bloat 4°/ time/cpu consuming when need to update menu ( as you need to reparse everything, etc ... ) > Item entries on this new menu would call up a tool that would see if it > was installed already or not. If so, it would offer the user the option > of uninstalling it. If not, it would offer the user the option of > installing it. this features exist before ( normal click and not right click ) and mdk remove it as this was too buggy. > Alternatively, packages could be modified to change this menu entry upon > installation, and change it back upon uninstall. In this way, the entry > could display say an x if uninstalled, or a plus if installed, making it > immediately obvious what was installed from the installer menu, without > having to take a trip back out to the main menu to look again, if in doubt. How are you going to manage this ? --- S'il y a plus d'hommes de coeur que d'hommes d'esprit, c'est que l'on ne peut pas feindre dans le second cas. Anatole France
