On Thursday 12 December 2013 02:26:42 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > In plasma-shell, we have some construction sites as well. Kickoff still > feels quite unfinished (some would say broken ;))
I wrote a new menu implementation for KDE 4 recently: http://i.imgur.com/eiq6D5w.png http://i.imgur.com/h9Y5jH2.png http://i.imgur.com/o3s3Bzk.png http://i.imgur.com/KG2R98u.png It's fairly simple on the one hand, but decently sophisticated in some respects on the other (for example, it treats diagonal pointer moves into subdialogs differently based on their escape angle, to avoid accidental category switches, and some other attempts to make user interaction as nice as possible). Key- board navigation largely matches QMenu, etc. It's currently based on the Homerun sources framework, which is conceptually redundant to Plasma Runners, but more con- venient to use from QML views, as Homerun sources publish categorized data in the form of Qt models. This will definitely be ported to Plasma 2 some time in the first half of 2014. In an ideal world, with enough time to see what we could do to runners to make Homerun sources obsolete. QML 2 is also going to make it a bit nicer to use, as the need to do some things in hotpaths due to bugs in QML 1's ListView implementation will fall, improving latencies in the UI quite a bit. Tester response has been mostly excited and happy so far. De- spite the 'oldschool' appearance, at least for mouse but also many touchpad users, the classic cascading popup menu design simply is a better match to their human ability to point at things within reasonable distances than the perennially fiddly "let's have a little smartphone VM in a corner of the screen" design of Kickoff. Meanwhile, configurable favorites for apps that are frequently used but not frequently enough to have on one's panel and support for the search-and-hit-enter usage patterns mostly succeed in marrying it with the best bits of Kickoff. If there's interest, it would be sweet to ponder in what way or form it might have a place in the mainline shell release. Cheers, Eike _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
