Thoughts on shipping Whisker Menu by default?

[Or Schiro]

Dear all,

For the past days, I have been testing the Whisker Menu [1] on Fedora Xfce and am impressed by the user experience.

To me, it has several advantages over the currently default menu.

1. It can be triggered and opened using Super key which is a fairly common design standard
2. It allows you to search for applications
3. It integrates the user details into the menu and thus makes having an additional profile section with your name in the panel (usually top right corner) obsolete

What are your thoughts on the Whisker Menu? Could this become the new default menu on Fedora Xfce?

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.

Yours

[1] https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/

[Aleksandar Kostadinov]

I only use wiskers menu for a long time. Not sure how you open it with 
the super key though. I'd like to do the same. I've setup super key to 
open the app-finder app. But opening wiskers would be nicer I think.

Or Schiro wrote on 09/27/18 12:50:
> Dear all,
>
> For the past days, I have been testing the Whisker Menu [1] on Fedora Xfce and am impressed by the user experience.
>
> To me, it has several advantages over the currently default menu.
> It can be triggered and opened using Super key which is a fairly common design standard
> It allows you to search for applications
> It integrates the user details into the menu and thus makes having an additional profile section with your name in the panel (usually top right corner) obsolete
>
> What are your thoughts on the Whisker Menu? Could this become the new default menu on Fedora Xfce?
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
>
> Yours
>
> [1] https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/
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[Robert Orzanna]

Hi Aleksandar et al,

Instructions how to use Whisker with Super key:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=49054#p49054

Any other thoughts on making Whisker the default menu for Fedora Xfce?

Yours

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 08:01, Aleksandar Kostadinov 
wrote:
> I only use wiskers menu for a long time. Not sure how you open it with
> the super key though. I'd like to do the same. I've setup super key to
> open the app-finder app. But opening wiskers would be nicer I think.
>
> Or Schiro wrote on 09/27/18 12:50:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > For the past days, I have been testing the Whisker Menu [1] on Fedora
>
> Xfce and am impressed by the user experience.
> > To me, it has several advantages over the currently default menu.
> > It can be triggered and opened using Super key which is a fairly
>
> common design standard
> > It allows you to search for applications
> > It integrates the user details into the menu and thus makes having an
>
> additional profile section with your name in the panel (usually top right
> corner) obsolete
> > What are your thoughts on the Whisker Menu? Could this become the new
>
> default menu on Fedora Xfce?
> > Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > [1] https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/
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> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
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> >

[Mukundan Ragavan]

On 9/27/18 5:50 AM, Or Schiro wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> For the past days, I have been testing the Whisker Menu [1] on Fedora Xfce and am impressed by the user experience.
>
> To me, it has several advantages over the currently default menu.
> It can be triggered and opened using Super key which is a fairly common design standard
> It allows you to search for applications
> It integrates the user details into the menu and thus makes having an additional profile section with your name in the panel (usually top right corner) obsolete
>
> What are your thoughts on the Whisker Menu? Could this become the new default menu on Fedora Xfce?
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.

I personally like to keep Fedora Xfce spin as close to upstream as
possible. Since a large number of options are installed by default
(using the Xfce spin), users can customize according to their needs.

My two cents.