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While a lot of posts lately seem to be about improving Kickoff, including my own about having an icon view option, I thought I would post about something that has bothered me for a VERY long time. And that is Kickoff's 3 levels of menus. While some people may want to have applications broken up into subcategories, for me it is nothing but a hassle to have to navigate back and forth through another menu just because I have 2 web browsers or 2 chat applications.

Currently, Kickoff has the option to "reduce" menu depth, but this only affects those applications that are the only ones in their subcategory. I would like the option to completely "remove" subcategory menus and show all applications after you click on the category.

Currently its:
Internet => Web Browser => Firefox, Chrome, Konqueror, etc

I would like it to be:
Internet => Firefox, Chrome, Konqueror, etc

i use Mandriva, and in the kickoff i have allready one level category, so is like to describe in the seconde case: Internet�firefox,konqueror

This an invalid KDE Brainstorm, since this differs per distro.

In Mandriva and openSUSE, you have Internet>Web Browser>Firefox. In Kubuntu, there is no subcategory. Just Internet>Firefox.
So you should file this as a feature request at your distro.

I wouldn't mark it as invalid _just_ yet. Let's try go through some solutions first. Supreme1012, have you looked at the menu editor (right click the K icon)? There you can easily modify the menu to how you want it to be. Does that solve your problem?

Vistaus wrote:This an invalid KDE Brainstorm, since this differs per distro.

In Mandriva and openSUSE, you have Internet>Web Browser>Firefox. In Kubuntu, there is no subcategory. Just Internet>Firefox.
So you should file this as a feature request at your distro.

in mandriva it has nt the web browser. just internet only

Dimitrios wrote:

Vistaus wrote:This an invalid KDE Brainstorm, since this differs per distro.

In Mandriva and openSUSE, you have Internet>Web Browser>Firefox. In Kubuntu, there is no subcategory. Just Internet>Firefox.
So you should file this as a feature request at your distro.

in mandriva it has nt the web browser. just internet only

Oh, sorry for my mistake.
But I know openSUSE has though.

So you see @TS, it's not a KDE-request but a distro-request.

Vistaus wrote:This an invalid KDE Brainstorm, since this differs per distro.

In Mandriva and openSUSE, you have Internet>Web Browser>Firefox. In Kubuntu, there is no subcategory. Just Internet>Firefox.
So you should file this as a feature request at your distro.

That shouldn't really matter, because KDE supports the sub-menus whether a particular distribution chooses to make use of them or not. For distributions that don't make use of the sub-menus, then this will have no effect, but I think it is still valid because the sub-menus are still a part of KDE.

It would be like saying because a distribution like openSUSE chooses to turn off strigi by default, then ideas related to strigi are not valid. They are still valid because strigi is a part of KDE.

Dimitrios wrote:i use Mandriva, and in the kickoff i have allready one level category, so is like to describe in the seconde case: Internetâ > firefox,konqueror

Thanks. You're right, I do use OpenSUSE and I didnt know that other distros did things differently.

I've used the menu editor before but it takes tons of time to edit, whereas this would provide a way to easily display things the way you want with one click and still maintain the applications hierarchy. Plus, if anything goes wrong or you switch distros you'd have to edit everything in the menu all over again (which has happened to me several times which is why I came up with this idea).