[Fwd: Re: [gnome-love] start-menu]

[Norman Jonas <normanjonas arcor de>]

Thijs Thiessens schrieb:

> I would like to start a new project called GKickOff. It's about the
> design of the gnome Start Menu. I would like to develop a series of
> guidlines which describes a good startmenu. To start I should conduct
> some polls perhaps to investigate what people really would like to see
> in their. If I have enough information, I could actually build one,
> perhaps as a module, which can be plugged in. I could perhaps develop
> more start menu's each with it's own special set of features. I think of
> it not only being a good add on to the theming concept, but it also
> provides very usefull functionality. Because currently, the Gnome Start
> Menu, is just an underestimated and bad designed part of Gnome.
>
> Is this a good idea? Is their already such a project? (I could not find
> any though..) If their isn't already a project for this, are their other
> people willing to help?
>
>
>
> Thijs
I absolutly agree with you. A better start menu with at least a side 
image possible would improve GNOME's competitive power. And there are 
certainly other users that would agree, even though there will be some 
that will complain, too. IMHO such a start menue should be flexible 
enough to provide a small and simple menue as well as an graphic intense 
impressing one. Furthermore it should fit into the GNOME codebase (=C) 
so that it could possibly be included into GNOME.

A similar discussion has taken place here 
http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=364 some time ago and there 
are already some thoughts of people.