Re: Main Menu mockup

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 5 Nov 2008, at 16:37, natan yellin wrote:

> Forwarding to the Gnome Shell mailing list.
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com>  
> wrote:
> > 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.

D'oh, so there is.

> > 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 the five different menus are already cluttered, then you're not  
going to make something less cluttered by just munging them all  
together.  On the other hand, if it's possible to simplify each of  
them enough that munging them together works, then it should also be  
possible to usefully simplify them without munging them together at  
all, saving the user a click or two every time.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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