"Inspired by the command wheel in the Neverwinter Nights online game, Kommando is a floating command panel for KDE. Although Kommando's development is almost as slow as an official Debian release, and is only at version 0.5.2, it is already a configurable and convenient addition to the array of panels available in KDE."
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Member since:2006-01-10
I've been dying for something like this. I love the Neverwinter Nights pie style menu. Unfortunately as you said, it really is only feasible for something like a favorites menu. Once you go past your favored 20 applications or so, it becomes a bit unusable.
But then if it went with just a standard install of having only one web browser, email, photo viewer, etc. It'd work quite well. Even with your typical Gnome environment that has only Internet -> Web Browser or Internet -> Email, etc. But once you open something like the Games menu, you'd have to split it (like you can set up in Debian) as Arcade, Strategy, Board Games, etc.
I love the usability of the pie menu. But don't like the limitation of the amount of items you can have in it before it becomes unmanageable. I actually hated Neverwinter Nights 2, simply because they did away with the pie menu, which I thought worked beautifully for that game.
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2006-10-28
This is pretty and nice for showing off. Realistically, you will have at least 10 items in the circle (I will have around 200). And many of those 10 items will have submenus. Some of those will have sub-sub menus. Finding the right thing in a circle of 10 unlabeled items quickly will be a pain in the a**. Finding the right thing in swarms of tens of items wil be... I'd rather not say.
Maybe It'll suit you better but not me. But this might be useful for storing maybe 5 very frequently used actions and using another panel as the main one.
Edited 2008-01-28 00:17 UTC