On Sunday 24 February 2013 07:45:20 Alexandre Couture wrote: > Hi everyone! > First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to the persons making > Trinity possible! > > In PCLinuxOS, between different window manager and desktop environment, the > layout of how apps are classified is very similar, while Trinity has its > own apps classification, which is the same as KDE3. Debian also has an apps > classification that is common across almost all WM and DE. > > I have seen somewhere that the next release of TDE will be freedesktop.org > compliant. Does it means that TDE will adopt this new way of organizing > apps? I would like to say that I prefer the new method of organizing the K > menu than the one used in TDE. As an example, let's look at these 3 menu > sub-levels: System, Utilities and Settings. These categories are almost > overlapping in each other and it ends up that something that would be > better placed in Settings ends up being in System or in Utilities. For this > reason, I prefer to use the KickOff menu instead of the classic menu in > Trinity, because I just have to type the name of the program I want to > start in the search bar at the top, and it ends up being faster than trying > to find where is the program I want to start. > > Of course, the new way of menu classification is not 100% perfect, but I > would say that, in my opinion, has made it a little more simple to use. > > Would it be a good idea to make an option in the menu configuration program > to let the users choose between the Trinity way of organizing the K menu > (as in KDE3) and the new way of organizing the K menu (as in KDE4 and all > the others DE and WM)? > > So, what do you think about it? > > Have a nice day! > -Alexandre I've been watching the responses to this thread, and they seem to be avoiding response to the original issue. I also am not a developer, but I wonder if such modifications to the look-and-feel of Trinity should be encapsulated, if possible, as an additional theme, or in an analogous manner? Leslie