Well it could be made more useful if you could click your photo and actually get to System Settings (if the system settings would have a tailored "Personal & Appearence" section this would make sense but wth)
On the other hand if the plan is to redo a launcher perhaps that is for future ... On Saturday 12 April 2014 21.55.55 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2014 21:29:17 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Saturday 12 April 2014, Vishesh Handa wrote: > > > a.) Most of the users won't discover the search in KickOff because there > > > is > > > no search bar. I could be wrong, but I don't think people think "if I > > > type > > > here, it will start searching" > > > > yep, that's a problem that should be fixed, it should really show the > > search box by default > > Yes, it should! In Gnome (and Gnome applications), "type to search" without > a search bar being visible previously is a common pattern, but in Plasma > and KDE applications it isn't. > We have talked about that with sebas, and his reply was along the lines of > "I'll leave it like that until there is an official decision on whether to > do this or not". However, it doesn't make sense to go it alone in one > place. Either we make this a general pattern, or we keep the prevalent > pattern. > > So yes, the search bar has to be always visible unless KDE decides that > hidden search field are the way to go and implements it as a general > pattern. > > Plus, showing the complete hostname and distribution (which is what is shown > now after the the "Type to start searching" is hidden) is not useful to > most users at all. > > Cheers, > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel