Re: Recently used applications

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 10:52, axel c wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 11:44, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 20:50, John McCutchan wrote:
> > 
> 
> i think perhaps the importance of the 'recent apps' menu entry is being
> over-estimated -- after all, user can put launchers for most used apps
> in the panel and access them with A SINGLE CLICK. and it's bloody easy
> to do so with the 'add this launcher to panel' right-click option (at
> least in this rh8 gnome2 i am using, i guess it's standard)...
> 
> can it get easier than that?

Yes; if they were on my alt+f1 menu I could access them with (at most)
alt+f1 and arrow keys.

Luis

> > Maybe I should elaborate on my reasoning for not wanting this feature.
> > 
> > First some comments on menu structure. With the current layout of the
> > gnome menu, we only have two levels of hierarchy, the main applications
> > drop down menu and one level of sub-menus. For example to browse the web
> > the user only has to click on Applications, search for the internet
> > category and than select web browser. Contrast the same action with
> > windows in which the user needs to select start => programs => mozilla
> > => mozilla web browser (there are examples of even deeper hierarchy in
> > windows). 
> > 
> > Deep hierarchies in the windows menu layout are most likely the reason
> > that microsoft added the recent apps feature (using their menus is very
> > hard, they knew this and tried to make it incrementally better).
> > Contrast that to the lack of hierarchy in the gnome menu layout (plus
> > our really good categorization and tool based names, ie web browser, not
> > mozilla). How is accessing an app(say a web browser) in Applications =>
> > Recent => web browser(an arbitrary category who's contents are not well
> > defined and may change) any faster than applications => internet => web
> > browser (this menu is static and always contains the same items in the
> > same order).  
> > 
> > Basically my view is that gnome does not suffer from the usability flaws
> > that make the recent apps feature necessary (we have a very shallow menu
> > hierarchy, and for bonus points we have good categorization and app
> > naming).
> > 
> > dave
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