Re: GNOME 2.0 Menu design

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> No menu item for gedit? Shouldn't there be an item for a simple text
> editor? 

gEdit was in Nils' original menu document. I didn't include entries I
didn't have any thoughts about.

> > > System Monitor (System monitor) [View the processes, memory and
> > > file system information of your computer] 
> > 
> > This is deprecated in GNOME 1.4.1 and is replaced with "Process Manager"
> > (may be renamed...any suggestions?). Process manager is more like the
> > CTL-ALT-DEL dialogue in Windows95 then the large nebulous mass it
> > replaces.
> > 
> > "Process Manager (procman) [View and kill running applications or other
> > processes]" might be one way to describe it. I prefer we lose the name
> > process, as that seems like techno-babble.
> > 
> 
> Okay, here are my present feelings about how we should do procman. First
> I think the menu item should be System Monitor (Procman). The tooltip
> would have to lose the part about file system info because procman does
> not do that yet (though maybe it will by 2.0). 

System monitor is not a very good name. I would prefer "Process Manager"
to "System Monitor", if the rationale is that only users who know about
processes will be launching the tool from the menus anyway. Your tool is
not a literal replacement for the system monitor, and the original tool
was poorly named anyway (imo).
 
> Second we should bind ctrl-alt-del to start up procman, just like
> windows.
> 
> I somehow feel that people who don't know what the term "process" means
> will not be inclined to use procman anyway, except for windows users who
> will look for an app that kills processes and the ctrl-alt-del binding
> will satisfy them. 

Where we can avoid it I'd *still* prefer not to have techno-babble in
the menus, even if we think most people won't be looking for it.

-Seth