[Usability]Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 bordoley msu edu wrote:
> > "The main application menu has changed from the bottom to the top
> > panel. This might please some Mac addicts, but is a poor choice for
> > everyone else. (The default should surely be to work like the Windows,
> > KDE, and old gnome - the start button is bottom left. And then have an
> > option to do it the other way.
>
> This is an issue of learnability. There are clear usability pluses to our
> menu setup and I would be quite upset if we even considered changing it. I'm
> sort of sad that redhat has chosen too ignore this usability plus in their
> version of gnome2 (based on screenshots i've seen correct me if i'm wrong on
> this one).

"You are wrong on this one". Limbo uses the default gnome2 menu
configuration by default.


Christian