Re: one question and one proposal

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:36:01PM +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
> I would like to propose a change in the panel's default structure,
> especially a move away from the "single start button" philosophy. since it
> first appeared in windoze 95, it has earned a lot of bad critics from user
> interface designers, screen designers and simple users.

gnome doesn't have a sigle start button philosophy ... it's just that
the default setup has the root menu positioned on the left side .... you
can add the submenus around the panel ... you can customize the panel
quite a lot ... unlike windows95 ... the panel is a different for of
interface then the win95 philosophy .... the panel is more like
traditional x setups .... it's a place to put icons of your recently
used apps and where to put/swallow some useless things like clock or the
cpu monitor or a cdplayer .... since there is quite a lot of things that
are to be presented .. it makes sense to put them all in a menu ... and
where to put the menu ... on the panel ... makes a lot of sense to me
....

George

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