KDE's "Start" Menu

[blackbelt_jones]

When I say that I hate KDE4, I mean that i hate using it. Everyone else can use it with my consent and blessing.

With all due respect to my good friend, the blackbelt_jones of the recent past, I really love KDE4 now, especially KDE4.3. As Walt Whitman wrote : "Do I kontradict myself? Very well then I kontradict myself. 4.3 is a beta, and, yes, I've found a few bugs, but they're mostly in the plasmoids. The widgets are great but since they're mostly based on web information, when they don't work you can easily do what people used to before KDE4, use your browser.

If you don't like KDE4's start menu, and you don't like lancelot, I reccommend the utter simplicity of Konqueror's application menu. Most menus are designed with fast access to applications in mind, but if you know the app you're looking for there are already much faster ways of accessing them than any menu. Opening the runcommand dialogue from the keyboard will get you there fast, and you can always create a keyboard shortcut with the input actions dialogue.

I don't usually use a menu, and when I do I prefer EASY to fast, and the easiest applications menu is the one in Konqueror. It's just icons that you click on, and that's all, nothing that's going to collapse on you if you don't maneuver the mouse just right. Icons and that's all. Under applications in the GO menu (in file manager mode) or just type programs:/ into the browser window.

Because of KDE's inbred fleixibility with icons, Konqueror's applications menu can be used in all sorts of cool ways. For one thing, because it's Konqueror, you can open it was an html link, or even a forum link. Anyone viewing this page with Konqueror can click here to check out the applications menu instantly. (At least I think they can. I'm using Firefox so I'll have to test it later.) You can also open programs:/ in dolphin, add the menu to your KDE4 desktop with folderview, or add it to your panel, with the quick access widget in KDE4, or the quick browser widget in KDE3.