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Kickoff questions
by goran on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @15:09

Will the following usability improvements make it until KDE 4.0 final?

1. A resizable Kickoff like in KDE 3.5.X.
2. Clicking on Applications button/tab will return to the Top-Level of the Application menu.

Other than that I really like Kickoff. If only it would be a little bit more configurable...

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Re: Kickoff questions
by Aaron J. Seigo on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @18:24

depends if patches (by my hands, yours or someone else's) appear in time.

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Re: Kickoff questions
by fuegofoto on Tuesday 11/Dec/2007, @19:00

It would be nice to be able to resize it or make the default size a bit bigger. On a 800 high display and 100dpi the default size still makes you scroll once you hit the Applications area(tab?). I wouldn't even consider it an issue except that it's the 'not-a-menu launcher' so if it's visible you're using it and not anything else so the screen space it takes up shouldn't be a major issue as long as it fits on the screen. Kind of an organized desktop full of icons... ;)

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Re: Kickoff questions
by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @18:35

oh, i agree. and it will eventually be resizeable at some point. how soon is the question =)

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Re: Kickoff questions
by Oscar on Wednesday 12/Dec/2007, @04:09

http://cofundos.org/

Have a look at it. You can donate money to have someone write the patches for you. Perhaps you can alter Aarons priorites by donating a large enough sum of money. :-)

I've got some money waiting for the release of KDE4 and when that happens I'll donate to KDEev instead. I have no specific requests, I'll let them distribute it as they see fit.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a "donate money on release day"-day for the devs who work hard and do all this wonderful stuff for us?

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Re: Kickoff questions
by Abe on Friday 14/Dec/2007, @08:50

Have you seen the Kickoff menu by Linuxmint?

I really really like it the way it replaces the 3rd level every time you select a 2nd level item.

In the new Kickoff menu, I don't particularly like the way the 3rd, 4th, etc... levels push the previous level list to the left. It is dizzying and confusing. Replacing is more elegant, appealing and seems faster.

Please make the Linuxmint style the default if current behavior is configurable.

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