On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, dep wrote:
said Alexandre Couture:
| Hi everyone!
|
| In the trinity-devel mailing list, there is a nst about keeping
| or removing the Kick-Off launcher. Here is a part of what is
| written:
|
| Timothy Pearson wrote:
| >> A good solution would be to 1) remove kickoff since it's
| >> unlikely that it is used, and doesn't keep in the style of
| >> trinity and port the cool features of kickoff into the
| >> original kicker panel, if there are any.
| >
| > I would need a list of any improvements in Kickoff that are not
| > in Kicker. Copious amounts of whitespace around each widget is
| > not considered an improvement. ;-) Perhaps you could gather
| > information from list members on why they use Kickoff vs.
| > Kicker?
|
| Francois Andriot wrote:
| >Hello, I'm always using Kickoff menu instead of Kicker, so I
| > would'nt like it to be removed.
| >I currently have no problem with it.
| >
| >
| >Here are some reasons:
| >- I prefer having separate tabs for favorites/all
| >applications/Computer/History , instead of having a single huge
| > menu with many submenus.
| >- I prefer the search feature of Kickoff, which displays
| > immediatly the icon of the app I'm searching. In kicker, the
| > search feature justs grays out the directories, but I still
| > have to browse the tree to find the application I want. When
| > the application list is very long, it is still not very
| > convenient.
I don't use search since I know the names of the applications I use
most often so I have a couple of terminals open and just type in the
names, e.g. 'gimp&' and voila!
(frankly, I seldom even look at the 'desktop'; I'd have to look to
see what icons are present there. for my 'use case', it is irrelevant
except as necessary prop for the programs I am engaged in.)
'apropos graphics' helps if I'm having trouble recalling the name but
I also keep the (classic) menu pruned so stuff I'm not likely to even
fool around with gets removed.
sorry, I don't have Francois's original post thus I'm replying to
this end of the long tail.
just mentioning other ways and preferences for doing things.
I would also endorse keeping/adding 'kickoff' as an option for those
who find it useful.
F.
+1, I use TDE as a WM more than a DE.
I use classic mode, did not know kickoff was available until now.
--
Peace,
Greg