Re: Some ideas for redesign of the GNOME Menus

[Louis Handfield <zeci cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:05, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> Since people would like to get rid of the distrobution specific menu and
> all that. I thought that perhaps it's worth looking at the layout of the
> entire GNOME menus.
> 
> Here are some quick thoughts (empty lines are trying to be separators):
> GNOME
>  |- Web Browser (%s)		eg. Epiphany/Galeon
>  |- Email (%s)			eg. Evolution
>  |
>  |- Recent Applications
>  |   |-
>  |   |-
>  |   |
>  |   |- More Applications	-> opens applications://
>  |- Recent Documents
>  |   |-
>  |   |-
>  |   |
>  |   |- More Documents		-> opens home://
>  |- GNOME Preferences		-> opens preferences://
>  |
>  |- Browse			-> opens computer://
>  |- Search
>  |- More Actions
>  |   |- Run Application...
>  |   |- Take Screenshot

May I add that some people (me) like to have Run as easily accessible
as possible? Maybe it would be a nice idea to keep a 'New' and 'Old'
menu style?

>  |
>  |- Help
>  |
>  |- Lock Screen
>  |- Logout from GNOME
> 
> Applications			(this menu would be optional)
>  |- Accessibility
>  |- Accessories			(could this be renamed?)
>  |- Games
>  |- Graphics
>  |- Internet
>  |- Music/Video
>  |- Office
>  |- Programming

> What do I like about this? Web browsing and email are at the top of the
> dropdown (this entire menu should be turned upside down if are menus are
> on the bottom). Recent applications and documents follow with obvious
> ways to find more applications and documents. I don't know if we
> currently have support for recent applications, but perhaps this could
> be added to gnome-session. We also present the preferences in a single
> window which is more consistant with the Windows Control Panel/MacOSX
> System Prefs, and seems to be more sensible. Following on from that are
> actions, the two common ones, Browse and Search are in the menu, all
> other actions are in a submenu, we could add a way to register actions
> such as "Speak" or "Connect to Server". Finally, help and Lock Screen/
> Logout. These options should be as far away from the initial mouse click
> as possible, to reduce likely hood of selecting them accidently. Only 11
> items in the menu. Much more task orientated "these are things I'll want
> to do in GNOME".
> 
> Then we have an applications menu. We could probably make it optional.
> This would look much similar to the applications menu we have now, just
> it would only feature applications. No preferences, no browsing etc.
> This menu would simply be the applications menu we have now. Perhaps
> rename a few things to better names.
> 
> Comments/ideas are welcome.
> --d

This kind of looks like Windows XP's menu in some ways. But I like the
recent menus, saves some time.