Re: Gnome Menu

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Berin Loritsch <berinl@netscape.net>
To: Gui List Gnome <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 11:21 AM
Subject: Gnome Menu


>
>   > Also, regardless of what IBM's research was about the leftmost
>   > menus being the most commonly accessed, we appear to be moving
>   > away from that, into a more object-oriented menu standard, based
>   > more on scope than on frequency of use.
>
>   re: leftmost menus
>   The leftmost menu is only considered the most accessed by people who
>   read from left to right.  Those who read in the opposite direction
>   access the rightmost menu most often.  Does that mean that file should
>   be on both sides?  I think the mock-up was very well done, and
>   illustrates that brand of object oriented UI very well.  With the
>   GNOME/App menu being an icon, it is unassuming enough to not be
>   considered the leftmost menu for normal work, and yet accessible and
>   logical enough to house those types of menu entries


Agreed.  Both parts of your message have been considered by us--we agree
that menu order should be flippable, and at least *I* hope that an icon
doesn't break the reading pattern.  (If it does, I argue the Icon must be
moved--New is more important than Exit/Preferences/Toys!)