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Kickoff right now has ridiculous menu structure from consistency and usability viewpoints.

There is a option "Reduce menu depth", but only makes things worse: it reduces menu depth only if there are less than two items in the same sub-category. For example, if you had only Firefox installed and then you wanted to try out Chromium and install it, Firefox ceases to be directly available from the menu "Internet" and moves to "Internet ; Web Browser". Ridiculous, right?

My suggestion to fixing the problem is following:
- When enabling "Reduce menu depth", there should be no sub-categories. At all.
It should reduce the menu depth regardless of how many applications are in the same sub-category: doesn't matter if you have one or ten browsers, they are all simply in "Internet", all the games are accessible straight in "Games" and so on. This brings much better consistency and rationality to Kickoff with only one change.


In addition to bringing consistency to how the menu functions, this kind of change would also have the following benefits:
1) reduce amount of clicks to navigate, reducing RSI risk and streamlining desktop experience
2) enable better discoverability of all the awesome apps user gets, as everything is visible with one glance (I found KGpg after manually making an actual reduced depth menu. True story.)
3) make all the GNOME3 and Unity refugees feel more comfortable with KDE (classic GNOME has only one level in menus as well)