Re: slab menu

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

You guys should really check out how the Gimmie applet is doing things.

Recently used apps are easy to find, as they're listed right next to the 
 flattened menu categorisation Gimmie uses in the Applications pane. So 
there is very little impedence for apps not in the recent list.

Favorite apps are easy to tag. You toggle the favorite button at the 
bottom of the pane. This causes the app to be listed in the All 
Favorites category at the top of the Computer pane.

If you place the applet in a corner, the Computer menu and it's first 
category are the first to display when clicking in the corner. So you 
get some Fitt's law benefit when accessing Favorites.

Not to mention that anything can be favorited for quick access in the 
same fashion as applications: documents, IM buddies, network shares, 
printers, capplets, tomboy notes, etc etc.

It's pretty awesome.

-Alex

P.S. This is a resend.  Hopefully mailman won't eat it this time.

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:02 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
>
> > How is it slow to get to things vs a traditional hierarchal menu? My
> > important apps are two clicks away -> open menu -> click.  Hierarachal
> > menus more clicks than that.  Don't like the default list?  Drag from
> > the app browser and drop them on the menu.
>
> Much as we'd all like it to be untrue, that's still more customisation
> than many (most?) "average" users are either willing to do, or have the
> knowledge to do, or (in some cases) are allowed to do by their sysadmin.
>
> You should see the state of the Start menu on my wife's Windows laptop,
> it takes up almost the whole screen, and it's not even in alphabetical
> order :)  But she says she has no interest in streamlining it, and
> wouldn't know how to anyway.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.