25 Feb
2013
25 Feb
'13
7:25 p.m.
On Sunday 24 February 2013 07:45:20 Alexandre Couture
wrote:
My personal opinion is that the new menu structure, regardless of how many
other desktops are using it, goes against the fundamental HCI goals of the
Trinity project by displaying very little information at any given time,
displaying that information in a nondeterministic manner, and requiring
multiple mouse interaction events to launch a program. Therefore, I
recommend against this suggestion, and politely suggest those wishing to
use a semantic desktop look into using KDE and Gnome Shell.
Tim
Hi everyone!
First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to the persons making
Trinity possible!
In PCLinuxOS, between different window manager and desktop environment,
the
layout of how apps are classified is very similar, while Trinity has its
own apps classification, which is the same as KDE3. Debian also has an
apps
classification that is common across almost all WM and DE.
I have seen somewhere that the next release of TDE will be
freedesktop.org
compliant. Does it means that TDE will adopt this new way of organizing
apps? I would like to say that I prefer the new method of organizing the
K
menu than the one used in TDE. As an example, let's look at these 3 menu
sub-levels: System, Utilities and Settings. These categories are almost
overlapping in each other and it ends up that something that would be
better placed in Settings ends up being in System or in Utilities. For
this
reason, I prefer to use the KickOff menu instead of the classic menu in
Trinity, because I just have to type the name of the program I want to
start in the search bar at the top, and it ends up being faster than
trying
to find where is the program I want to start.
Of course, the new way of menu classification is not 100% perfect, but I
would say that, in my opinion, has made it a little more simple to use.
Would it be a good idea to make an option in the menu configuration
program
to let the users choose between the Trinity way of organizing the K menu
(as in KDE3) and the new way of organizing the K menu (as in KDE4 and
all
the others DE and WM)?
So, what do you think about it?
Have a nice day!
-Alexandre
I've been watching the responses to this thread, and they seem to be
avoiding
response to the original issue.
I also am not a developer, but I wonder if such modifications to the
look-and-feel of Trinity should be encapsulated, if possible, as an
additional theme, or in an analogous manner?
Leslie