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

[Toby Smithe <toby smithe gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:23 +0200, BJ�Lindqvist wrote:
> On 10/24/06, Don Scorgie <DonScorgie blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:11 +0100, Iain * wrote:
> > > You can drag them from lots of places to the main menu and they'll be added.
> >
> > Thanks.  Unfortunately, this still seems pretty weird to me.  The
> > "Computer" menu closes as soon as I click somewhere else, which means
> > that to add something, I have to drag it to the "Computer" text on the
> > panel.  Again, this isn't easily discoverable.  What is really needed
> > (IMO) is an editor for the Favourites.  Something that's easy to
> > discover and use.
> 
> If you had used Firefox' bookmarks toolbar more, I'm sure you would
> have had no trouble at all discovering it. :)

A menu shouldn't assume that the user has already used Firefox. I agree
it's likely, but not necessarily everybody. I use Firefox, and I didn't
know about this bookmarks feature. I rarely use bookmarks.