As a side note, gnome menu content should be generated from desktop files as described in this spec http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec.html for interopability with other desktop environments. I haven't read your mail really carefully, so I'm sorry if this is off topic and you don't want to redesign the way most of the menu content is generated ;) Christophe Le dim 04/05/2003 à 13:34, Thijs Thiessens a écrit :
Hello, I wasn't very clear in my first post, so here is bit explanation. First of all, I use gnome since I use Linux, which is probably from around 1998. I have also used KDE a lot, but for some unknown reason I really loved gnome much more than I ever loved KDE, or any other desktop manager. Besides the other plans I have related to the theming concept, here is what I want for the start menu, but please consider the fact, that I don't want millions of configuration options that drive me crazy like in KDE. Remember also that this is an effort from a users point of view. I know I can edit all things I want, but not my little sister, who just wants to find Frozen-Bubble easy. The basic framework I have in mind; The gnome-menu The gnome-menu-editor The gnome-menu-configurator The gnome-menu would be based on modules, each wich can be graphically configured. The gnome-menu has at least one module in which we could place small applets. Remember though that people also uses the menu-bar for this. The gnome-menu would be task oriented, as it's default setting. The gnome-menu should have a clear and clean organisation. The gnome-menu can be placed anywhere you like. The gnome-menu should have some ability to draw it's content from a remote source. The gnome-menu should take advantage of the flexibility of XML. Their will alway's be an option to use the original gnome-menu. With gnome-menu-editor we can build a new theme for the gnome-menu. With gnome-menu-configurator we can configure our current theme, based on the configuration options the designer has build in for this theme. The gnome-menu, and it's two applications should be developed in C. These are a few simple thoughts I have in mind. More important, we should assemble some CRAZY designers, who can think of original GNOME-like designs. Not those stupid Windows look alike things I have seen from other discussions. But creative, inventive things which are good to use, functional, yet very compelling. Remember that the design of the Windows start menu, isn't nonfunctional, in contrast, it is very usable. It's just very ugly. :) I'm a programmer, and I don't even use the gnome-menu much. But please consider that users of a computer need a starting place in which they can choose a specific task they would like the computer to perform. They don't want to see a list of programs installed on the computer. It would be nice to see some comments of the gnome developers. Perhaps they have certain plans already availible for the gnome-menu. To start things, perhaps I can organise some contest for the best gnome-menu. People can send in their ideas, and creations, along with some comments on why they have designed it that way. It should give us at least an idea of what people want. Rather than that we try to figure out what they want. To make them enthusiastic, I will search for a very nice award alike thing.. :) These are all just thoughts, comments are welcome. Thijs p.s (Waar kom je vandaan? :) ) _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list gnome-love gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
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