Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 15:19 UTC
KDE developer Pinheiro revealed his ideas on the next KDE menu, dubbed 'Raptor'. "What is Raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project I have been working on in the last few days. It tries to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users." A design document (containing more screenshots) is also available [.pdf].
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RE[2]: Not to be rude...
by SlackerJack on Sun 7th Oct 2007 16:10
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RE[3]: Not to be rude...
by GeneralZod on Sun 7th Oct 2007 16:30
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If anyone posts any kind of screenshot or image that is related to the KDE project then, no matter how structurally/ conceptually different it is to anything in Microsoft's oeuvre, *someone* will say "lol it looks just like Windoze!1". It's practically a law of nature - a really boring and tiresome one.
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"Not to be rude, but this appears to be *very* similar to what Vista has."
Hmmm... judging jsut from screenshots I'll have to agree. In my opinion, it seems to be a trend today for Linux look and feel to imitate some MICROS~1 look and feel... it looks like a combination of CDE (XFCE 3), the Mac OS X dock, the "Vista" start menu, and the "Vista" color scheme. This is not the only example. Strange...
"It looks like this is just a more convenient interface to a menu that uses a non-standard way of categorising applications."
As I read from the PDF (p. 3), the menu structure is guided by actions (what you actually want to do) instead by application categories (what tool you want to use). I think this may be a good approach to novice users who are not familiar with the tools (way), but know what they finally want (result).
Favourites and application description (more than just one line) are a very interesting idea. If it's really used to extend user friendlyness, it might gain the communitiy more users.