https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427723
medin <med.medin.2...@gmail.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|INTENTIONAL |---
Status|RESOLVED |REPORTED
--- Comment #5 from medin <med.medin.2...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4)
> It may sound like I'm being thick here but I asked because I'm genuinely
> surprised by the request. :) Allow me to explain:
>
> Kicker implements a launcher menu that matches the UX of a traditional
> cascading menu, like the ones in your apps' menubars. Having items open
> sub-menus on hover is therefore deliberate; that's the UX of a cascading
> menu. Since Kicker is not the default launcher menu, it's expected that
> people who go out of their way to switch to it are people who like the UX of
> cascading menus. If you're not one of those people, I genuinely suggest that
> Kicker isn't right for you, and you might be happier with Kickoff (the
> default launcher menu), Application Dashboard, or SimpleMenu, none of whigh
> use the cascading menu paradigm.
I tried all of them :
- Kickoff is good but has separated tabs for favorites, apps, history and
system actions, this separation makes the menu slow to complete simple tasks,
for example if I wanted to restart I should press meta key then select "Leave"
tab then click restart.
- Simple menu is good but not suitable for mouse use and doesn't look nice with
those huge icons and when there are lot of apps you should swipe by mouse left
and right to get other apps or click on those small white dots at bottom which
are difficult to locate using mouse pointer. And the system actions (restart,
shutdown...) are located at top right and have really small icon size which
contradicts the big size of apps icons.
- The only reasonable, good, logical and well implemented is kicker, you can
directly access history apps/files/folders, and favorites and system actions
and apps are all well put together in single view without need to separate them
to different tabs, for example if I want to restart I should press meta key
then click restart which is much simpler than kickoff menu logic.
This is what makes kicker the best menu for me, what I want is not remove
cascading design but only trigger the appearance of sub-items in the menu by
mouse left click rather by mouse hover. With this the user can pass the mouse
pointer over the menu and choose any favorite pinned app without being
distracted by those automatic hovers that show the menu sub-items.
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