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maninalift
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menu search

Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:00 pm
I found this on kde-forum.org:

Hello everybody.

I don't know if someone else had this idea.
What about adding a text edit in every kdeapp (like beside the 'help' item)
which could find a menu item and make a list of found items and maybe a short
description of them ?

It could be very easy and fast, especially in every application with a lot of menu items.

For example a search like "folder*" in kmail would create a list of paths like:

File > Expire all folders
File > Empty all trash folders
Go > Next undread folder
Folder > New Folder
Folder > Delete folder


Of course they're links to the corresponding functions.

And maybe the search could be extended
to the description of every menu item.

Thank you.
Xh


Along with this reply:
Maybe this one was a good idea. =)

Apple implemented the menu pointers in OSX Leopard, released in October 2007.


I think the Apple approach could be improved upon but this could be a killer-feature if it were implemented KDE-wide.


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RE: menu search

Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:53 pm
Nice idea. This could easily be implemented globally in XMLGui so that all KDE applications that use xmlgui ( all in trunk/KDE do as far as I am aware ). Perfect for applications that have many features in the menu.


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