Re: Location of Desktop Preferences menu (was Reducing the number of special uris in gnome)

[Sam Steele <chip c99 org>]

I would like to at least have the option of having the capplets on the
menu somewhere.  Windows provides an option for having all the control
panel applets displayed in the settings menu, and I always enable this. 
It cuts down on the click count, which is a big issue for me as a touch
pad laptop user.
Applications -> desktop preferences -> (capplet) is only 2 clicks,
whereas

Desktop-> preferences, (capplet) would be 4 (double click for the
applet)

I'm also against having more than 2 toplevel menus on the menu bar at
the top, as my 800x600 LCD display's screen realestate is very limited.


-Sam

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 18:22, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:47, James M. Cape wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 10:07, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > > Here's a suggestion:
> > > 
> > > Replace
> > > 
> > > Applications               Actions
> > > ============               =======
> > > Accessories >              Run Program...
> > > Desktop Preferences >      Search for Files...
> > > :                          Take a Screenshot...
> > > :                          -----------------
> > > :                          Lock Display
> > > :                          Log Out
> > > 
> > > with
> > > 
> > > Applications               Desktop
> > > ============               =======
> > > Accessories >              Run Program...
> > > :                          Search for Files...
> > > :                          Take a Screenshot...
> > > :                          -----------------
> > > :                          Lock Display
> > > :                          Log Out
> > > :                          -----------------
> > > :                          Preferences > 
> > 
> > I think "Desktop" is better than "Actions", but "GNOME" is better still.
> > For most users, and in other places in the UI, "Desktop" refers to the
> > desktop/root window: in the default case, nautilus icons. It also
> > promotes a cleaner ideological separation between GNOME & the
> > applications which use/require GNOME. GNOME2 vs. GNOME2 applications,
> > etc.
> 
> 2 problems with calling it "GNOME" are:
> 
> 1) I don't think a lot of people know exactly what GNOME is. It's a
> mixture of utilities, desktop and libraries. A "Gnome" menu to control
> "Gnome" doesn't exactly make this clearer.
> 
> 2) (More importantly) We have a "GNOME" menu, or one that could easily
> be mistaken for it. It's the foot menu (gnome icon).
> 
> > 
> > * Applications   [GNOME]
> >                  +------------------+
> >                  |* Run Program...  |
> >                  |* Search...       |
> >                  |* Take Screenshot |
> >                  |==================|
> >                  |* Preferences...  |
> >                  |* Lock Display    |
> >                  |* Log Out         |
> >                  +------------------+
> > 
> > Also noticible from this organization is the thought that the menu for
> > "Desktop Preferences" should go away in favor of a simple .desktop
> > launching gnome-control-center. Definately much simpler for beginning
> > users, and not particularly more overhead, since nautilus is now much
> > quicker, and gnomecc is not slow to start by any means.
> 
> I agree with doing away with the preference submenus and launching
> nautilus instead.
> 
> > 
> > This also lessens the criticism about "the preferences no longer being
> > centralized."
> > 
> > Peace,
> > 
> >     Jim Cape
> >     http://ignore-your.tv/
> > 
> >     "No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass
> >      slaughter of innocents."
> >         -- Edward Said
> > 
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> -- 
> Andrew
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