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Re: Wishlist
by Nitro on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @13:29
I agree too, here are my additions:

29 when you hold down the mouse button in konqueror on a directory icon, it should popup a new window with the listing of the directory, which could be further traversed. This would be useful if you dragged a file from /home/foo/test/ to /usr/foo/test/blah/heh/sdsd. you would not have had to open the second directory. This is like MacOS's spring folders.

30 a theme creator is needed!

31 the kmix applet should have a mode in which it appears as an icon. when yourrmb ont he icon, a little popup menu shows with sliders for controlling master/pcm/etc..

32 the pager applet should have a mode to remove the labels of the desktops (like 1 2 3 4). I frankly don't care what those desktops are named or what number they are. Other people might, but I should still be given a choice.

33 a way to simplify all menus, sorta like in Microsoft Office 2000's menus. a small subset of the menu items are shown, and there is an arrow is shown at the bottom of the menu. When you get your mouse over that arrow,the rest of the items of the menu show up. If you select one of these items, it'll be added to the small subset, and remembered next time when you load that menu or app. Right now, imho, kde menus are really cluttered compared to GNOME's, and I think this would be a good way to simplify it somewhat.

34 menus should have flexible locations, like GNOME's or Window's. THey really should just be toolbars with text being the default. I'd even be nice to turn some of the menu names into Icons like in MacOS.

35 keyboard navigation should be improved. There should be a way to do through keyboard. To start, I think tabbing in Konqueror needs to be fixed. It should work like it does in IE.

36 tabbing in konqueror. the only thing I miss from galeon or opera.

37 a smart bookmark feature in konqueror like in galeon

I'd like to see these apps ported to KDE3 (not really that important, but still):

xqf
a mathml widget/kpart (like mozilla's or gtkmathmlwidget)
xmms

also, I think kinkatta should replace kit and kvirc should replace ksirc (wll, I dunno about that, is kvirc a true KDE app?). it'd still be nice to remove the perl dependencies in ksirc.
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Re: Wishlist
by Charles Hill on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @18:28
>33 a way to simplify all menus, sorta like in Microsoft Office 2000's menus. a
>small subset of the menu items are shown, and there is an arrow is shown at the
>bottom of the menu. When you get your mouse over that arrow,the rest of the
>items of the menu show up. If you select one of these items, it'll be added to
>the small subset, and remembered next time when you load that menu or app.
>Right now, imho, kde menus are really cluttered compared to GNOME's, and I
>think this would be a good way to simplify it somewhat.

In addition, apply this logic to the file type picker. When saving a graphic, show only the most recent -- with JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF and BMP being the defaults. It's wonderful some programs can save in dozens of formats, but how many are really used by the average user?

Also, give the file type picker extended text -- like a description of the file type. I've had novices repeatedly ask me what file type to save images in for the net and then wonder why their BMP files take so long to download.

Sort of like:
.JPEG -- Photographs and pictures for the web.
.PNG -- Icons and an alternative to GIF
.GIF -- Animated icons, banners and web buttons.
.TIFF -- Full fidelity images for pro printing.
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Re: Wishlist
by Alain on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @02:58
> 33 a way to simplify all menus, sorta like in Microsoft Office 2000's menus. a small subset of the menu items are shown, and there is an arrow is shown at the bottom of the menu.

I desagree. It is very irritating to 1) search, 2) not find and then 3) make a supplementary click for having the good command.

For me it is a very bad option and MS Windows is very irratating with such things where the system try (badly of course) to think for the user. So please, if such a thing has to exist one day, make it only in option and not the default option.
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  • I Agree 100% ( with you that is :) )
    by Cyber Rider on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @23:09
    I currently find this one of the most annoying and irritating “features” of MS software. It drives me nuts not being able to quickly find a menu item because the program/OS got a brainwave and decided to hide it from me because it knew I didn’t want to use it. IMHO it is much faster to find an item in a menu if the menu remains the same as apposed to if it keeps changing which items are immediately visible to the user.

    Just my 2 Oz cents plus a rant :)
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  • Re: Wishlist
    by Electroniceric on Wednesday 12/Sep/2001, @13:55
    Count me in agreement, too.

    I *HATE* "Intelli"menus. And it makes support a nightmare, because you don't really know what will show up on a users monitor when you're talking to them.

    Keep them out of KDE.
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  • Re: Wishlist
    by Andreas Silberstorff on Friday 14/Sep/2001, @15:34
    I guess it can't be underlined often enough!!!

    If there really are lots of users who think they need
    'intelligent' menu make it optional and never default.

    I would have something else on the wishlist:

    I would like to use a filefilter on the url-field.

    If I give it a URL like f.i.
    file:/path/to/somewhere/*.jpg
    konqui should show me only jpegs simiulary to an
    ls /path/to/somewhere/*.jpg
    on the console. Even my really very old Atari had
    a file-filter-option, allthough a little bit hidden.
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Re: Wishlist
by Thijs on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @09:15
Mathml support (and maybe SVG) would be great. Love KDE by the way, keep up the good work.
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