Re: [Usability]GNOME main menu and panel

[Jeroen Verhoeckx <jeroenverh2002 yahoo com>]

Oke sorry, you are right. I could have said it in a
better way.

I follow the the development of Gnome a few years now
and to my regret I saw little change in basic things
like the panel and the main menu. This is the starting
point of the user. 
When I show GNOME to my friends they find the two
panels strange and not very usefull. When you have two
panels, one at the top and one at the bottum, you use
more space of your screen than necessary. When you
have just one at the bottum you can place your icons
next to the windows lis applet. 
So the second panel at the top is not necessary.
If we want GNOME to be used by every day people than I
think one panel at the bottum would be best. 

About the main menu.
First I have to say that I use SuSE 8.1 and maybe they
didn't deliver GNOME in it's default state. But when I
have just one panel at the bottum and I open the menu
one off the first items is screenshot. I don't think
this should be in this place but somewher in a map.
I just looked at some more screenshot on the web and
there the menu was much beter, so sorry I was wrong.
But still I think that it would be great if GNOME gets
a new main menu. A clean menu with two columns. At the
bottum, next to each other, the buttons lock screen
and shut down. Above that two colums. At the right one
with the categories and to the left one with shortcuts
to important programs or maps.
Do you think that this is difficult make? Remember I'm
not a programmer.

I also have a third idea. I think GNOME needs a new
default Logo. The foot looks very old.
I personaly like the grey-yellow one (you can find
this one at art.gnome --> Large icons). This one looks
more modern.

summery:
One panel at the bottum as default.
Cleam two columns main menu.
A new default GNOME logo.


Is this letter better?

Greetings GNOME user Jeroen Verhoeckx (the
netherlands)



jeroenverh2002 yahoo com

--- Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="Jeroen Verhoeckx">
> 
> > GNOME will never been taken serious and will never
> be
> > used by the mass if this doesn't change.
> > The default must be one panel at the bottum!!!
> 
> Do you realise that unconstructive, grandiose
> comments such as these will
> never be taken seriously by the people who put their
> blood, sweat and tears
> into GNOME.
> 
> Sorry, you're going to have to work out a
> constructive way of approaching
> these issues.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
>     Echidnas, or at least the ones I've met, don't
> have joy. Adults very    
>      rarely have joy. Kids have hyperkinetic nuclear
> joy in abundance.      


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