After talking and making many mockups in T9041 about changing the UI of Kickoff, it started to look more and more like SimpleMenu with the following changes:
New features:
- Make username and user picture visible, with pc name on hover like what Kickoff does right now
- Show categories for recently used apps and documents
- Show category for Places
- Be able to pin folders and files in Favorites category
UI Tweaks:
- Show favorite apps on a separate page rather than on the first page of the "All Applications" category
- Make Power/session icons always show text labels, and expose the non-visible ones in an overflow menu
- Enable more KRunner runners so that you can do math and unit conversion
- Use the Sliding Popups effect to show it and hide it
- Scroll long grids rather than having discrete pages
Bugfixes:
- Make long names become multi-line strings rather than eliding at the end of the first line
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This task was created so we can discuss the layout, hear feedback and create mockups based on this design instead of Kickoff, since the original task was Kickoff related.
Also, this is this is the first time I made one so let me know if I did something wrong.