Do you use the KDE dashboard menu system? comments?

[woodsmoke]

Hi
This is a follow on from a thread by "digyourownhole", in which I might have hijacked his thread! :0

I'm going to spend the next "while" putting the "dashboard" menu system through it's paces on a high powered physical system using the latest Wiley and latest Plasma.

I would REALLY, and I think that others would also, like to read your comments, good and bad, about the KDE Dashboard.

Not the Unity dashboard.

So.........

woodsmoke

[Cecil]

I'm assuming you mean the Application Dashboard. I like it, it feels like what Microsoft should've done when they created the Start Screen; a transparent overlay with favorites, application categories/submenus, and programs within those submenus arranged in a way that's easy to quickly find what you're looking for, not that tile-filled garbage they designed instead.

[Teunis]

It's covering my work and so far I see no advantages over a well structured classic menu.
Similarly I've never liked icons on the desktop because they get covered, here it's similar.

Additional to the menu, I have assigned keyboard short cuts to all important apps.
The most important are Meta+z for a konsole and Meta+d for Dolphin.
In Dolphin I navigate to a file and click it to open in the associated application.

[Rod J]

If you are meaning the dash that pops down when you press Alt+F2 ... for me it's the one thing in KDE I almost never use. I've just never felt the need for it at all.

[Rufus]

Well, I tried, it's really OK, one can find his way around quickly. But I still prefer the menu.
Especially as I have put time in tweaking it's appearance

[whatthefunk]

Never use it.

[MoonRise]

Don't use it. Start Menu has always been for me, especially with Homerun Kicker in place!