Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Ter, 2007-01-09 �13:39 -0600, Scott J. Harmon escreveu:
> 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...
> 

I think it's more fair to say that people who currently use the "Places"
menu to access bookmarked folders a lot will not be a big fan of slab.

People who don't use Beagle or another indexer can still prefer slab
over the current menu as long as they don't use the "Places"
functionality too often, or prefer slab's other features enough to let
it go.

Cheers,
Evandro