Re: [Usability] Detailed menus

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

When I install debian I select the "gnome-desktop-environment" package
which gives me a fresh gnome install.

-Rob

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:57 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:19, Vidar Braut Haarr wrote:
> > Iain * wrote:
> > > I took another deep breath and dived back into the infamous
> > > gnome-panel/menu.c and came up with this
> > > http://marlin.sf.net/detailed-menu.png
> > 
> > That looks really nice! :) However, I don't think it's a very good idea. 
> > When you've got a fresh GNOME install, the only things you should really 
> > see in the menu are the Generic Names, and they should be descriptive 
> > enough not to require a description. And if you then install a secondary 
> > application for the same purpose, you are sure to know about it, and so 
> > you already know how to distinguish between them.
> 
> I just want to clear things up here.  Every time the menu and generic
> names and such come up in conversation, people talk about this "fresh
> GNOME install" that only has the base set of GNOME applications.  And
> that sounds really nice.  It's just that I've never seen this fresh
> GNOME install anywhere, ever.  Every fresh install of a distro I've
> looked at has some GNOME stuff and some KDE stuff and maybe an extra
> browser and email client.
> 
> Real users don't install GNOME.  They're lucky if they install their
> distro to begin with.  In the real world, GNOME is used in heterogeneous
> multi-user environments.  We should make our design decisions for the
> real world, not for this hypothetical "fresh GNOME install".
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 
> 
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