Re: [Usability]making GNOME more usable

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

Really, the "I want to..." approach is more at home in Help than on menus, 
mainly for the reason that there is huge number of important "I want to..." 
possibilities. 

I would suggest that we need to talk about putting a front-end on the Yelp 
browser, that would give users access to a long list of likely actions. I would 
suggest the following approach: 

How do I ... [field where you type keywords]

alter themes
apply styles
add a panel
...and so on. 

We could generate a long, cross-referenced list of all possible actions. 

Pat


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> Hi Eglk,
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> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Eglė G wrote:
> 
> > dialog. Or it can be changed to "I want to..." as Adam suggests. The
> > program , which is set as default (in GNOME Control Center) for specific
> 
> Some customized versions of GNOME already offer this functionality, such
> as the version that comes with Mandrake 9.0 beta 1. See this screenshot:
> 
> 
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake9.0/Beta/images/betaShots5.p
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