13 Feb
2014
13 Feb
'14
4:16 a.m.
kmenu/office/personal information management/
The menu was almost impossible to spot due to it being non-
standard all lower
case. It looks like this was just a temporary placeholder that got
forgotten
about. Is this an intended change? If so, I suggest a patch to put
an 'e-mail'
entry back under 'internet' where people usually look for
'internet' apps and
I have no idea how you get all lower case. On my system the menu is
proper mixed case:
Personal Information Management
perhaps shortening the sub-menu folder name from
personal information management
to simply
PIM
or
Trinity - PIM
Acronyms in a menu? How does 'PIM' translate in Swahili? Not going
to happen.
Burring kmail, kaddressbook, kontact, kalarm, and
kgqg under
kmenu/office/personal information management/ just seems like a
recipe for complaint:
You are the first and only person to complain since we made the
changes many, many months ago.
According to that image, I don't see any all lower case instances
of anything. All proper mixed case.
If we are dead-set on having a "personal
information management"
menu, then at
least make it consistent in standard "title" case and move it to a
top-level
menu as:
Personal Information Management
That is how the menu already appears on my system and in your
screenshot. Something is wrong at your end.
And at least add kmail and kontact entries back to
the Internet
menu. Further
regarding the 'Internet' menu -- all submenus have disappeared.
Looking.. All
submenus in tmenu or kmenu are gone except for one 'Super User'
submenu under
System and the normal 'Games', 'Development' and 'Edutainment'
submenus. I like
the menu cleanup, but we need to put internet apps back under
'Internet'.
That all said, I am uncomfortable with the Personal Information
Management sub menu. Our original goal was to reduce clutter. Try
using the original menu in 3.5.13.x with KDE4 concurrently
installed. Impossible to navigate with all the duplication and the
menu size exceeds the desktop height. Even now, on a 1200x800
laptop screen, with a full Trinity installation, the menu is long
and nearly pushes the edge of the top of the screen. Without the
KDE submenus, the problem would be exactly the same.
Pulling the apps from the Personal Information Management submenu
into parent menus will make the menus longer.
Try using Xfce with Trinity and KDE4 installed. There are no
submenus. Horrible.
Office seems more natural to me than Internet to find KMail. Lots
of people use mail clients in local office networks. I suspect most
office users do not consider mail an internet app but an office
app. Likewise for other PIM apps. The internet is only an extension
of those office related apps.
I'll tinker to see what we can do.
Darrell