


Utilities by Seli 10 comments
But since I have installed this, I often have a lot of empty space at the beginning of the notification area (thus before other notification icons). I have the impression that if I fire up a KDE application with systray icon, and close it again, the space in the notification area is not given back. So if you start and close such an application several times in one session, more and more space is lost in the notification area... This is with Gnome 2.6.1. I have never seen such a problem before I used kdetrayproxy. - May 23 2004

Various Stuff by damiancito 86 comments
But indeed, it's excellent that there are finally some serious attempts to develop a new usable, functional and pretty menu. And discussions like these will bring up new ideas which will only result in yet more improvements! :-) - Oct 22 2002

Various Stuff by damiancito 86 comments
But I think the latest version of this menu is very good, and a lot better than XP: it takes up a lot less space than XP's menu, it does keep a single, quickly accessible application menu (where XP tries to hide less often used applications in a submenu so it is again one click further away), and it brings some useful additions, because it integrates e-mail and agenda really in the system.
Why is this good to have this in the apps menu? Well, now it is much more visible to newbies! Be honest, how much newbies do really use the icons in the system tray? Have you ever seen the system tray of an average Windows user? It is surely cluttered with a lot of applications from which newbies don't even know they are starting automatically. I know the situation is a lot better in KDE, but still newbies tend not to use the few icons in it.
Why would they use the icons in the apps menu then? Well, actually, the icons are a lot more clearer (because they are bigger and because they are located in a place where people actually will look much more in detail, because they have to read the menus), and, there's also an explanatory text beneath it, which just says what it does. Now newbies will understand what it is, and actually start using it. And they will conclude that KDE is a very handy system, because e-mail, agenda, etc. is so accessible and integrated. While we, power users, know that in fact, it was just as accessible before, but for people new to KDE, it will make a huge difference. - Oct 22 2002

Various Stuff by damiancito 86 comments