Re: Main Menu mockup

["natan yellin" <aantny gmail com>]

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:

On 5 Nov 2008, at 10:57, Matthew McGowan wrote:

My main menu mockup, i believe, offers more functionality than existing main menus... though i guess it is similar to the Novells Slab menu and Vista's Start menu(?).  It would provide a single location for browsing applications, friends/contacts, places, deskbar-like search, document history, logout options and system preferences & administration.

Caveat: I haven't looked at your prototype yet (any chance you could just throw up a screenshot or two somewhere?)

There's a screenshot in the archive.

But my usual reaction to these "all-in-one" menus is "why do I need an all-in-one menu"?  Many of the categories you've listed above (apps/docs/places, friends/contacts, system preferences, logout options) aren't fundamentally related, so why try to shoehorn them all into the same small bit of screen real-estate?

It's a lot easier to use than 5 different clutteres menus shoved all over the place. If it's done right, it can look a lot cleaner.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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