Re: GNOME Menu (was: Re: [Usability]Re: UI Review Suggestions - Panel)

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

I'd suggest "Desktop" instead of "Main" in this circumstance. GNOME is becoming 
less meaningful from a user perspective, as Havoc pointed out earlier in this 
string. 

Pat

> 
> <quote who="Roberto Rosselli Del Turco">
> 
> > Food for thought for GNOME 2.4
> 
> Hey hey, great stuff.
> 
> > Main
> >     Home
> >     Personal info
> >     	About myself
> > 	Change password
> >     ------------
> >     Open Recent
> >     Run program
> >     Search for files...
> >     ------------
> >     Lock screen
> >     New login
> >     Log out
> 
> Awesome! Though, oddly enough, I would suggest going with "GNOME" for this
> very public menu name. Or something more globally descriptive than "Main".
> (The difference here is that it becomes relevant all the time, rather than
> just a description in a context menu.)
> 
> > Applications
> >     Multimedia
> >     Game
> >     Office
> >     Net
> >     Database
> >     Development
> >     ...
> > 
> > Accessories
> >     Archiving
> >     File tools
> >     Monitoring
> >     Text editors
> >     Terminals
> >     ...
> 
> I'd combine these. The Accessories menu you have here has categories for
> things that 'normal' users would only want a single icon for, such as
> terminals, text editors, etc.
> 
> > Preferences
> >     Desktop preferences
> >     GNOME System Tools
> >     ------------
> >     Linuxconf
> >     Webmin
> > 	...
> 
> I'm still not confident that a top-level Preferences menu is a good idea.
> Like Mac OS X, Preferences could fit very well into the first Main menu.
> 
> > Help
> >     GNOME help
> >     Linux guide for beginners
> >     Howto in english
> >     ------------
> >     About GNOME
> 
> Hmm! Interesting! I'm sure the docs guys will love you for this suggestion.
> :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
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