Re: [Usability]Re: The whole panel focus/keynav thing

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes: 
> That would certainly make life easier, but I'm not sure it would be very
> usable the way things are right now.  For one thing, the menu would be
> pretty big, 12 or more items depending on the applet-- that's too big
> for a popup menu IMHO.  There would also be some duplication problems...
> for example, you would have Panel Help and Applet Help; Panel
> Preferences and Applet Preferences; and About Panel and About Applet,
> with the same icons for each pair.  Of course you would have different
> text labels in each case, but I think it would still be quite confusing.
> 

Seems like a pretty compelling point. I like the idea of putting the 
panel stuff into the foot-menu applet and foobar menus a bit more
than the menu-merge idea.

Havoc