Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 13th Jan 2008 20:09 UTC
KDE 4.0.0 has been released on January 11th, after a number of delays; the months preceding the release, the KDE developers tried very hard to downplay expectations. KDE 4.0.0 was just the first release in the KDE 4 series, and such, should not be seen as the best possible representation of the KDE 4.0.0 vision. So, when I installed KDE 4.0.0 on my Ubuntu Gutsy installation last Friday, I knew what to expect: KDE 4 Developer Release 1 (yes, I am a BeOS guy - how did you know?). Read on for a few quick first impressions.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Well, partly. The style may be partly taste, but the value of fluid transitions has been quite extensively studied. A transition done right is always easier to understand than a sudden change (which can induce change blindness).
It's not the transition I have issues with, it's the sliding concept in itself. I have a 22" 1680x1050 screen, why the need to cram all the menus into one tiny sliding box? It hides the menu path from view, and makes it unnecessarily complex to travel backwards.
Edited 2008-01-13 22:13 UTC
Member since:2005-09-21
It's not the transition I have issues with, it's the sliding concept in itself. I have a 22" 1680x1050 screen, why the need to cram all the menus into one tiny sliding box? It hides the menu path from view, and makes it unnecessarily complex to travel backwards.
Yeah I think it would be better if the whole menu actually expanded sideways when you entered categories.. Like the columns view in Dolphin or Finder.
Mostly I just use KRunner anyway, so the design of the menu is mostly irrelevant. In KDE 3.5 i just removed it entirely. It's always faster to type.
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2005-09-21
Well, partly. The style may be partly taste, but the value of fluid transitions has been quite extensively studied. A transition done right is always easier to understand than a sudden change (which can induce change blindness).