Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:48 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> I'm in total agreement here.  I've used the slab menu which is included
> in Ubuntu.  For those who want to make useful comments about slab as it
> compares with the other menu setups can "apt-get install
> gnome-main-menu" on Edgy.  
> 
> My personal feeling is that it does seem kind of slow.  I find it hard
> to find applications when using the application browser.  

Me too, FWIW... it takes all the issues I've ever had with the MacOS
control panel (having to scan in three dimensions-- category,
left-to-right, top-to-bottom, rather than just up/down), and magnifies
them greatly due to the additional necessity of scrolling, and the much
larger number of available applications compared to control panels :/

The intial popup window has a similar (if lesser) effect on me too, I'm
afraid-- it just kind of splats a whole bunch of visually-competing
buttons and differently-sized icons in my face, with no
immediately-obvious structure.

(Then again, I always hated the XP start menu and the Vista one looks
even worse to me, so maybe I'm the wrong audience here...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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