KDE preferences ??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 14:18:44 Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > In my system the System Settings menu is directly under the K Menu (as
>> > well as under Computer). Since I didn't change anything from the
>> > defaults, I assume that's normal.
>>
>> 1) My KDE menu seems to differ slightly on various machines,
>> perhaps according as I used preupgrade or not?
>>
>> 2) I don't find the organisation of the KDE menu at all intuitive.
>> Sorry, but I think Bill got this one right, or nearly so.
>
> I didn't like it, so I hardly ever use it.  I have panel shortcuts for the
> things I need instant access to, and I set the less-frequently-used-but-
> necessary apps to have an icon on the favourites screen.  After all that, I
> still hardly use it.  I find that typing part of the name into krunner works
> better for me.  (alt+F2 or desktop right-click, if you haven't found krunner).

I used to use krunner a lot with 3.5, but the 4.1 version seems slow
and clunky. It's slower at searching, doesn't remember history (the
arrow button) and IIRC has actually crashed on me at least once. This
is kdebase-workspace-4.1.3-7.fc10.x86_64 at the moment.

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