[Usability]Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Christian Rose <menthos menthos com> writes:
> 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.
> 

No it doesn't, it uses a setup more like our 7.3 setup.

One reason for this is to have the same setup in GNOME and KDE.

Havoc