Re: GNOME Menus restructuring

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 19:04, Matthias Clasen<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> We have done essentially this (with the extra Preferences menu in
> between) for a few releases in Fedora, and we have gone back to using
> a single Preferences menu by default now. The two main problems we
> faced with this are
>
> 1) deep menus are hard (your approach kinda avoids this by nuking Preferences)
>
> 2) The categories are not clear enough to find what you are looking
> for without constantly strolling through several submenus.
>
> I don't think any amount of reorganization will make the menus really
> good. A menu system is just not a good fit for this amount of data
> that is not very strictly categorized.
>
> I'd rather see us focus on moving away from these menus via
> gnome-shell and  and new control-center shell.

And maybe remove as many settings as possible?

Regards,

Tomeu


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