Re: Control Center Behavior

["Dan Mann" <daniel_b_mann hotmail com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike" <mike redtux demon co uk>
To: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback


> 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.

OK, everyone likes it different.  How about this:  when you run GNOME for
the first time it says, "Would you like to use the default desktop settings?
YES no"

That way, if you are not technical or don't care, you hit enter and go on
your merry way.  Other wise, you could choose a couple of options like
during ximian setup.  Makes everyone happy!

Dan

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