[Bug 238235] New: Review Request: TastyMenu - KMenu replacement aiming to provide the maximum usability

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           Summary: Review Request: TastyMenu - KMenu replacement aiming to
                    provide the maximum usability
           Product: Fedora Extras
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: lightsolphoenix at gmail.com
         QAContact: fedora-package-review at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://crystalsanctuary.rpgsource.net/packages/specs/tastymenu.spec
SRPM URL: http://crystalsanctuary.rpgsource.net/packages/source/tastymenu-0.7.1-0.nixa.2.src.rpm
Description:
Tasty Menu is a KMenu replacement aiming to provide the maximum usability, or
at least to be a testbed for usability concepts and ideas for a future KMenu 
replacement.
 
The left part of the menu is very similar to the Novell idea 
(http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html); you have a search box 
that is always selected when the menu is opened (the search results are 
displayed in the leftmost listview), followed by a combobox that decides what 
appears in the following listview: favorite applications (default), most used
applications, recently used applications or recent documents.
 
The right part contains the whole KMenu and takes the aspect from KBFX 
(http://www.kbfx.org); the middle column contains the top level categorization
(plus in the current KMenu arrangment the Control Center, Home 
folder and Find Files, but I think only categories should be present). 
and the left-most listview contains the content of the category currently 
selected in the middle column. I think in this way even if it has the same 
number of items it "appears" less huge than with a popup menu/submenu 
structure.

Every item has two rows, for the name and for the description, in order to 
make it more informative. On each selected item an action icon appears
on the right; at the moment they are "add bookmark" on application icons and
"remove bookmark" on favorite apps list.
 
The bottom buttons are the usual switch user, lock session and logout. At first
I didn't want to put them, I thought that 
these functions should be delegated to another applet (like 
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26150), but it seems that this
doesn't work very well in practice.
 
The left-most button contains the user name and icon, and clicking on it 
opens the Profile Editor. I know it seems silly, but it's only an experiment, 
probably it will be merged with the switch user button.

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