https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357136
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #2 from [email protected] --- > Searching from the Application Launcher is very difficult if it's on top of > the screen both because it's a long travel from activating the window to > clicking in the search box You can start typing right after activating the launcher, there is no need to click in the search box. The mouse path to the search box is equally as long when the menu is at the bottom, and it doesn't really matter since you don't have to click in it. > Why does it alternate between a search box and showing the user@host? This seems like a very weird design choice, or a bug. If you open the launcher it shows "type to search", if you start typing, then delete all characters, it shows user@host. When you move around with the mouse hovering over different entries it randomly switches between both texts. It would be better to always show user@host in its own line, or next to the username, or don't show it at all. But don't randomly change the field, it's distracting. (In reply to Martin Weinz from comment #1) > Another related issue concerning the usability of Application Launcher in > positions other then bottom or top of the screen is the keyboard-navigation > getting odd: > When at the bottom of the screen, tabs and menus can intuitively be > navigated using the arrow keys. > When put to the (left) side of the screen, you have to use the > left/right-keys to go up or down and the up/down-keys to get left or right. I'm of this opinion, too, the keyboard shortcuts are not intuitive, since left/right goes up/down, but i see no better way of setting the keyboard shortcuts, since both the tabs and the lists are vertical. The issue could be avoided by not showing the tabs vertically, instead showing the tabs horizontally in the same way that the as the normal launcher does when placed on the bottom. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
