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The new "K" menu.
by NabLa on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:02

Looks cool. However, why is the "search bar" on the top of the menu and not at the bottom where is closest to the just-depressed-K-button?

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Re: The new "K" menu.
by an user on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @02:15

The search bar receives focus when you open the menu. So it's like "click on the K-button and start typing", without having to click again. Also, results appear from top to bottom, just under the search bar.

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Re: The new "K" menu.
by Robert Knight on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:43

> However, why is the "search bar" on the top of the menu

The SuSE team who developed the UI originally found that people did not find the search bar if it was on the bottom.

Its a slightly surprising result, but it shows the value of testing things in the real world.

Either way, the search bar has keyboard focus as soon as you open the menu, and any key presses to the tab bar or menu area which wouldn't have any effect (eg. letters) are directed there.

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Re: The new "K" menu.
by Richard Van Den Boom on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @07:26

Reminds me of a book I read about how to make efficient presentations : it said that when a slide appears onscreen, people automatically look at the middle, so always put in the middle the real important thing you want people to consider in that particular slide. I've been following this motto since then and it seemed indeed to make my slides easily read by attenders.
To come back to the menu, I suppose that the eye is more easily attracted to the top of the window than to the bottom (at least in western cultures where we read from top to bottom), especially if there is an animation making the menu coming up from the taskbar.

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Re: The new "K" menu.
by Aldoo on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @08:37

And what if we put the bar at the top of the screen instead ?
(I know it is not now possible with the UI for plasma in 4.0)
Should then the menu layout be modified in function of its position on the screen ?

I have had some bad surprises with kicker in the time when I used to put it on the left edge...

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