SUSE K-Menu
SUSE made a new K-menu. They did usability research, and testing. They polished it a lot. It’s really good. It’s a true evolution of the start-menu concept.
I like the following best:
- No cascading menus so you lose the “misclick of death” feature that plagues cascading menus. Which is to say, when you misclick or move the mouse too far and you have 5 nested menus open, you have to start again. The SUSE menu changes what is shown when you open nested menus.
- When you are in a nested menu, a big back button the whole height of the menu shows on the left. This uses Fitts’ law too, so you just throw the mouse to the left side of the screen to go back. This feels so nice.
- All menu items have large extended selection regions, so you can’t miss them when moving the mouse quickly. They feel wonderful, the targets are huge.
- Moving the mouse to the bottom left of the screen opens the menu without a click being required
- Search is quick and omnipresent
- Menu items have the name in black, and the description in gray underneath
Other little things just ooze polish, like the “user username at domain” text having the username and domain in bold. This is slick.
Well done to SUSE.
but it messes up your old settings
May you post a picture or two to show it in action?