Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 1/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com> wrote:

> -1 too.
>
> It's of no use, and worse than other ways of achieving the same
> functionnalities.

Its much quicker for different ways of working with menus. I no longer
have to hoke through menus to find what I want, and using a trackpad I
often have issues with menus disappearing or the wrong one opening.

> (Note that I don't have beagle, and that beagle is not
> part of GNOME anyway)

Whats this got to do with anything? Seems a silly strawman arguement.

> So, a few rants (using gmm from edgy, sorry if it has changed since):
>
>    - "favourite apps" seems limited to 6.

I've got 8 in it currently.

> But I use:
>      - xchat-irc, gajim, liferea and such daily
>      - epiphany, thunderbird, devhelp, gedit, terminal, matlab, pepito,
>        "home folder" every now.
>      So that makes obviously more than 6, and those are more easily and
>      quickly available from launchers in the panel. One less click.

Thats 10. I've just added another load of applications to my menu, its
now got 12.
I can only imagine how much panel space 12 application launchers would take up.
*shrug* I don't think its much of an arguement against it.

>      And, as Alan pointed in another mail, "favourite" is not a good
>      word: I really don't like pepito.

Thats not a very big issue really?

>    - "places" is very limited (contains only "computer", "network",
>      "home" and "cd burner"). Places menu allows me to access all my
>      local bookmarks and remote locations with one click and, at worst,
>      one submenu.

As has been mentioned before having a Places menu might help here.
The rest of your complaints are really stylistic issues.

iain