Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 17:58, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Christian Rose <menthos menthos com> writes:
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 bordoley msu edu wrote:
> > > > "The main application menu has changed from the bottom to the top
> > > > panel. This might please some Mac addicts, but is a poor choice for
> > > > everyone else. (The default should surely be to work like the Windows,
> > > > KDE, and old gnome - the start button is bottom left. And then have an
> > > > option to do it the other way.
> > >
> > > This is an issue of learnability. There are clear usability pluses
> > > to our menu setup and I would be quite upset if we even considered
> > > changing it. I'm sort of sad that redhat has chosen too ignore
> > > this usability plus in their version of gnome2 (based on
> > > screenshots i've seen correct me if i'm wrong on this one).
> > 
> > "You are wrong on this one". Limbo uses the default gnome2 menu
> > configuration by default.
> > 
> 
> No it doesn't, it uses a setup more like our 7.3 setup.
> 
> One reason for this is to have the same setup in GNOME and KDE.

Have to admit I'm with Dave Bordoley on this - having the app menu at
the top is just so much easier to use.

I use RH, but fail to see why gnome should have the broken "start menu"
setup just because the competition does.

Surely the same issue applies to the yes/no buttons placement