Re: To answer your question about the upcoming Style-Guide...

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: To answer your question about the upcoming Style-Guide...


>George <jirka@5z.com> wrote:
>
>> it already is implemented ... I can't see why people call it the start
>> menu though ..
>because of the striking resemblance. as I said, I DID put a couple of
people
>who never saw gnome before in front of it. they INSTANTLY started to treat
>the gnome-menu or whatever you want to call it as the gnome-incarnation of
>the start-menu. that's why I opt so strongly to split it up and make clear
>to the user that we are NOT copying the worst-ever (imho) interface.


Why is it the worst ever?  Because of the mucked up Programs menu default
categorizer?

Did users not understand the concept of app categories inside of the
gnomeprint?

You put them in front of an interface and they understood it.  That's not
necessarily a bad thing.