Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

["Scott J. Harmon" <harmon ksu edu>]

Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Em Ter, 2007-01-09 �14:27 +0100, David Prieto escreveu:
> > > it does not integrate deskbar and nor should it - the search should only 
> > > be for applications (IE .desktop files)
> > I could do with just application search, but as far as I know it doesn't
> > even do that.
> >
> > As for beagle search, I never thought it was that all that useful. After
> > all the search tool is right there under the places menu, why have it
> > twice?
>
> Access to your bookmarked folders ("Places") with slab is slower[1], but
> searching is faster and much more easily discoverable. These are two
> different scenarios that cater to different computer users.
>
> For example, some users would really benefit if they could just type
> "Beatles Let it Be" or "Family vacation photos" to open a document
> rather than browsing the computer file system to find them. 
>
> I can't count the times I've seen people "lose" files, and I believe
> having Beagle so easily available is one of the main reasons slab did so
> well in Novell's usability tests (which I haven't watched yet).

But Beagle is not in gnome, so this point is moot.  I think we are 
really seeing that people who have Beagle like Slab, and people who 
don't have Beagle don't like slab...

> Cheers,
> Evandro
>
> 1. You can quickly access your bookmarks from Slab by launching Nautilus
> (with its "Places" sidebar).

Scott.