RE: [Usability] decicion on panel menu size

["Dalibor Petricevic" <daliborp iskon hr>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: usability-admin gnome org 
> [mailto:usability-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of 
> Murray Cumming Comneon com
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: uraeus linuxrising org; horkana maths tcd ie
> Cc: usability gnome org
> Subject: RE: [Usability] decicion on panel menu size
> 
> 
> > From: Christian Schaller [mailto:uraeus linuxrising org]
> > > Is the vertical advertising stripe really necessary?
> > Well having tried both with and without I think it is rather
> > nice looking
> > to have.
> 
> I think that stuff that some people think is nice, without 
> any rationale or advantage, belong in themes.

"Vertical advertising stripe", as Christian call it, might have some
sense other than just looking cool (and useless :))
For example (and it is really a trivial one :))
Sometimes I click right mouse button on window border (or something else
for that matter) when I actually wanted to right click desktop and, say,
change background image.
Menu I get Is not what I wanted and I get little confused "what the heck
is this?" for a second or two ... Now, if "vertical advertising stripe"
would say "Galleon" or something related to thingy I just clicked at -
you got the picture :)
It might contain "menu title" or some other useful text. 
I think we should not discard potentially useful feature like this just
for the sake of all mighty simplicity.

And yes, I personally like that strap ;)

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