Re: [Usability] New way of accessing software (WAS: Re: Big Panel menus (32x32))

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

> Even more off topic. I personally feel the big problem with the menus is 
> that they are application/program based which I consider to be an 
> implementation detail. It would probably make a lot more sense to make them 
> task based. In this scenario apps like eog, pdf (viewer apps) would never be 
> in the menus. Instead you would just open files using *gasp* the file 
> manager as most users probably already do anyway. To create New documents 
> (what most users use the applications menu for anyway) we could add a 
> toplevel "New" menu with subitems such as "Document," "Image," 
> "Spreadsheet," "Text File." This would allows us to remove a substantial 
> number of apps from the apps menu, probably to the point to where we could 
> label it tools (I'm thinking of apps that don't handled documents here). 
> 
> THis is a pretty vague idea, but I just thought I'd throw in some ideas. 

/me loves this idea. I's much better than just fiddling about with the applications menu.
Application should not be like a desktop environment unto themselves.

OT: I started wondering if I'd gone mad recently when I decided that
having a file slector at all is just a workaround for having a broken
file manager/desktop envornment.

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Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>