https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434904
--- Comment #15 from flan_suse <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Tobias Leupold from comment #14) > Video #2 demonstrates EXACTLY what happens to me when using the new > launcher! And it makes it frustrating to use! Thanks for visualizing this! > > Gladly, you can still install "Legacy Kickoff" to keep the old (way more > usable) menu ... There was nothing to "improve" from the legacy design. * Larger, easier targets (the whole point of a quick-access menu launcher) * Vertical mouse cursor movement without risk of collision nor interruption. * Bottom panels that display *desired quick-access* content... which are reached with a simple upwards vertical mouse movement. * Less reliance on sub-menus. * Most-often used favorites/shortcuts were easy to click (yet if you need to dig further you still can navigate by categories and sub-menus) --- The paradigm shift with the new menu design comes off as a "change for the sake of change". * Forces arbitrary "diagonal" or zig-zag movements just to launch a favorite app. * Targets are not located directly above the mouse. * Requires overly complex "fixes" such as the "TriangleMouseFilter" that is only needed *because* of the inherent design flaw. (Clean designs don't require predictive filters to try and decipher the user's intended mouse movements). * The split view (with the desired targets on the opposite side) requires user-consciousness. You can see from the videos that in the Legacy Launcher I didn't even have to worry or think about it... just wham, wham, wham, over and over, clean and easy to use, simple and fast. With the new launcher you have to be more aware *as* you are moving your cursor "Do I want to use the categories or launch a favorite app?" The reason is because your *initial mouse movements* will determine whether or not the categories get activated or if they ignore your cursor. * The above is also because it's too crammed. In the Legacy Launcher your intention is clear before doing anything: tabs on the bottom will present you with LARGE menus of: Favorites, Applications, Places, Etc. In the new launcher it's trying to fit too much into a small area. To illustrate this last point in the extreme: Imagine if the launcher split into THREE panels: Categories, Favorites, Places Not three tabs on the bottom, but three split *panels*. Imagine trying to quickly use the launcher regularly in your day-to-day. But don't worry, they'll come out with another "fix" that measures the acceleration and deceleration of your mouse cursor to predict which of these three panels you intend to click on. I know it sounds silly, but that's the point. The Legacy Launcher *design* was clean, and required no fancy fixes nor conscious awareness to use it intuitively. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
