Hi all, Sorry, I forgot to write who wrote which quote...
1 On the horizontal application launchers While the horizontal format is fine for a few icon-only launchers (quick launch, docks etc.), the idea to > Have it open a horizontal menu that replaces or covers the panel > entirely. This menu would show a list of your applications folders, as > well as is bad for the following reasons: 1.1. we (RTL and LTR writing humans :) ) are used to read horizontal text sequentially - from the beginning to the end, like a single paragraph, not to separate it in stacks. With vertically separated items, we can easily find the beginning of each one, like multiple paragraphs. (finding the third parahraph in a page is much easier than finding the third sentence) 1.2. Since the items are horizontal, in order to move the mouse from the first item to the last, you need to travel much more than you need to with vertical lists. 1.3 Due to the same reason as 1.2, you can fit less items in a row than in a column (even when the width of a screen is much bigger than its height) 2. On covering the work > Like the application launcher, it opens horizontally rather than > vertically (so it doesn't cover what you are working on) I actually like the concept behind this, but I fail to see the importance of it. If you want to start a new application, it is going to open in front of your current work anyway, so why shouldn't the launcher? 3. On the taskbar text I've used smooth tasks applet which hides the text. While it *looks* awesome, it fails when you have multiple windows from the same application (Gimp, Inkscape, OOo etc.) - you need to hover the items, to get the text and the window thumbnail in order to activate one of them. 4. On 'verticalness' of it all :) > In any kind of Vertical launch menu (Windows* kde3, Kickoff, Lancelot) > you have a longer number of step to do before you find whatever you want This has nothing to do with something being vertical, or horizontal. It is about 'popup' launchers. As you can see here: http://imagebin.org/135938 you can have a vertical (with autohide for example) panel launcher that is as accessible as a dock Cheerio all! -- You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -- Michael Pritchard _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
