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<title>The &tastymenu; Handbook</title>

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<author>
<firstname>Marco</firstname>
<othername></othername>
<surname>Martin</surname>
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<address><email>notmart@gmail.com</email></address>
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<year>2006</year>
<holder>Marco Martin</holder>
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<releaseinfo>0.1</releaseinfo>

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&tastymenu; is a TMenu replacement
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&tastymenu; is a TMenu replacement aiming to provide the maximum usability, or at least to be a testbed for usability concepts and ideas for a future TMenu replacement.
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<title>Using &tastymenu;</title>

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<para>
 The left part of the menu is very similar to the Novell idea(<ulink url="http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html">http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html</ulink>): you have a search box that is always selected when the menu is opened (the search result are displayed in the leftmost listview), followed by a combobox that decides what the following listview: favourite applications (default), most used applications, recently used applications and recent documents.
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The right part contains the whole TMenu and takes the aspect from <ulink url="http://www.kbfx.org">KBFX</ulink>, the middle column contains the top level categorization (plus in the current TMenu arrangment there are also the control center, home folder and find files, but i think there should be present only categories). in the left-most listview there is the content of the category currently selected in the middle column. I think in this way even if it has the same number of items it <emphasis>appears</emphasis> less huge than with a popup menu/submenu structure.
Every items have two row, for the name and for the description, in order to make a more it more informative. On each selected item appears an action icon on the right, at the moment they are "add bookmark" on application icons and &amp;remove bookmark &amp;on favourite apps list.
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The bottom buttons are the usual switch user, lock session and logout. In a first time I didn't want to put them, I tought that these function should be delegate to another applet like <ulink url="http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26150">http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26150</ulink> , but it seems that the multiple menus concept it's a thing that doesn't work very well in practice, it needs more real-world testing.
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The left-most btton contains the user name and icon, and clicking on it it opens the kcm used to edit the user's profile. I know it seems silly, but It's only an experiment, probably it will be merged with the switch user button.
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<sect1 id="tastymenu-features">
<title>More &tastymenu; features</title>

<para>To do</para>
<para>

</para>

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<chapter id="commands">
<title>Command Reference</title>

<sect1 id="tastymenu-mainwindow">
<title>The main &tastymenu; window</title>

<sect2>
<title>The search field</title>
<para>
  To do
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<chapter id="faq">
<title>Questions and Answers</title>

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<para>To do</para>
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<para></para>
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<title>Credits and License</title>

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&tastymenu;
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<para>
Program copyright 2006 Marco Martin <email>notmart@gmail.com</email>
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Contributors:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>some code from Kbfx Spinx (<ulink url="http://www.kbfx.org">http://www.kbfx.org</ulink>) copyright (c) 2006 Kbfx team.</para>
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<listitem><para>dmctl.h and dmctl.c Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Oswald Buddenhagen and Stephan Kulow</para>
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<listitem><para>some code of the TastyListView from the statistics list view of Amarok (c) 2005-2006 Seb Ruiz</para>
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<para>
Documentation copyright 2006 Marco Martin <email>notmart@gmail.com</email>
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<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

<sect1 id="getting-tastymenu">
<title>How to obtain &tastymenu;</title>


<para>
 The latest &tastymenu; sources can be found at <ulink url="&homepage;">&homepage;</ulink>
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<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>

<para>
In order to successfully use &tastymenu;, you need at least &kde; 3.4 (didn't tested it under older &kde; versions, but it could compile anyway). it should suffice a stock &kde; found on most distributions, without special requirements
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You can find a list of changes at <ulink url="&homepage;">&homepage;</ulink>.
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