Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Iain * wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 18:55:47 +0000
> From: Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>
> To: "[ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux" <nudrema gmail com>
> Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Proposed module: gnome-main-menu
>
> 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.

Please do not belittle our concerns. Perhaps it is not intentional but you
are coming across as quite dismissive and a little harsh.

Slab benefits greatly from the inclusion of Beagle.  It is important that
for this discussion the search feature be excluded and that we are all
evaluating the same thing since it will not be available by default,
although some (most?) distributions may choose to enable 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?

A minor issue, yes.  I should probably file a request.

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

Could that (or any of the other small enhancement requests) be done in
time for 2.18?

-- 
Alan