F9 menu issues

[John M Cavallo]

On Monday 21 April 2008 09:30:17 pm Andrew Farris wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The new kde-style menu responds to mouse-over, and there doesn't seem any
> > way to stop it.  To get a sub-menu you have to click on the group member,
> > and if the item you want isn't there you have to click on the < button. 
> > This is all very slow.  I think it will bring a storm of criticism.
> >
> > Switching to the classic menu, I find that some sub-menus display over
> > the top of the main menu - not all sub-menus, just some of them.  That's
> > probably a bug that should be reported.
> >
> > These are personal reactions, but interfere with my working comfort.
>
> I tried KDE4 and that is definitely my number 1 complaint with the new KDE.
>  The new style menu is absolutely unusable as it is (if I wanted to do
> something that slow I would browse through the filesystem into /usr and
> double click the executable myself).
>
> Of course, it reminds me heavily of the (also disgusting and unusably slow)
> Windows Vista new style menu system... which is no surprise as much of
> KDE's design mirrors UI elements people find comfortable and familiar.  (no
> need to flame I admit I'm a gnome person already people)  I gave KDE4 a
> shot and I do like some of it, just not that menu.
>
> --
> Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> www.lordmorgul.net
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I agree as well, manually searching the application menu is painful.

I had thought that the search was supposed to find applications that were 
related to the search words, not just a name match. I was looking for the 
display control to set up a dual monitor system. I thought I should be using 
randr (which isn't on any of the menus to begin with). Trying to manually 
search the menus is a huge pain, as noted. It is especially frustrating when  
the item isn't there. When I searched for "video", I found nothing related to 
the monitor. When I searched for 'monitor', I got 'System Monitor' 
and 'Battery Monitor'. When I searched for 'display' I got the 'Display,' 
which looks like it has randr built in. If I had been searching for a 'music 
player', 'mp3 player', or just a 'player' I don't think I would have found 
Amarok or Rhythmbox.

Searches would be much more useful if they were done on a brief 
description of the application (something like 'apropos' or 'man -k' at the 
command line).