Re: Replacing control center menus

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:55 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:36 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:51 -0700, Scott Reeves wrote:
> > > I find the filter feature significantly helps with the “too many
> > > capplets” issue.  One strength of the new shell is it dynamically
> > > displays the filtered list of choices as you type (and <enter>
> > > launches when you are down to one).
> > 
> > As I commented yesterday, this can actually be counter-productive, as it
> > means you don't get to learn the initial position of the icon you're
> > looking for so you can just find it visually the next time.
> 
> Are you actually likely to use any given capplet enough times that you'd
> be able to remember where it was between uses? From what I remember of
> OS X, I always had to look around a bit to find the capplet I was
> looking for.
> 
> Also, I don't remember if we're looking at including the SLED
> application browser as well, but it works exactly the same way as the
> control center does wrt searching, and doing highlighting rather than
> filtering wouldn't work well at all there (since there are several pages
> of apps).

Man I hope not.  If I wanted a Windows clone I would run Windows.

Jon