Hey all ! I was thinking about how to improve user experience about QuickLaunching in kde.
As a user I have already fill a bug report about that at the start of the year. Now, thanks to Aaron, we have panel auto-hiding and i ask me if we can't just use that to build a dedicated quickLaunch bar. The idea is to provide what kickoff does, whitout the need to reach kickoff and click on it. We can have a auto hide-panel (on the left or on the right depending of what is the easiliest reachable for the user) and put on it : - favorites apps grouped (should perhaps be a plasmoid itself) - recently used apps and doc grouped (should perhaps be a plasmoid itself) - for an equivalent to tab apps we can perhaps add a light old fashion kde start menu ?! - for an equivalent to the leave tab we can add a dedicated popupApplet Based Plasmoid that show a dialog with all the action the user can do (shutdown, leave, hibernate, etc) - Same thing for the computer tab - for the search stuff, perhaps the idea is just to put a krunner inside a popupapplet - if the user want quick access to the files in some particular directories (download dir for example) he can add perhaps a "folder view" plasmoid based on popupApplet too. For discoverabilty purpose perhaps we need that auto hide panel are showed the first seconds than plasma start ?! Before starting to work on this, i would like to know if you think that this could be relevant. Chears Lo _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
