Re: [Usability] Panel popup proposal + desktop preferences

[Marek Peteraj <marpet naex sk>]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:47, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:44, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:50, Daniele Levorato wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a suggestion about panels popup menu... perhaps someone has 
> > > already posted something similar however I don't know :-)
> > 
> > We have indeed had long discussions about this before... most of the key
> > points are captured in this (now closed) bug report:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82642
> 
> Haven't read it thoroughly, have seen some talks about the hide buttons.
> Too non-obvious i suppose.
> 
> I think you should take a look at each function of the parent context
> menu i.e. the panel menu:
> 
> 1. about panels, about gnome - who cares we want usability ;)
> 2. new panel - shouldn't be invoked from another panel, and if so, it's
> not really important for the icon context menu which should inherit the
> important parent functions.
> 3. properties + delete this panel - this
> 4. add to panel  - and this
> 5. help - isn't available in icon context menu
> 
> 3. and 4. should go into a 'panel' submenu within the icon context menu.
> True you won't get a 100% context menu, but the world isn't perfect
> either. ;)


OTOH i think that it makes perfect sense to have the following functions
centralised:

*Add panel
*Delete panel
*Panel properties

As these functions logically fit together as one group.
It's really not right to invoke a new panel from another panels context
menu. 

As delete and properties is specific to each panel, it makes sense to
also leave them in context menu. But they would become subsidiary to the
centralised ones.

As for adding new icons(add to panel) - if the panel is full, there's no
place to put an additional icon, so you'd have to remove one which again
would free up space for a panel rightclick.

So to summarize:

* add a centralised and unified add/remove/properties functionality
* remove add panel from panel context menu

That said, i'm beginning to wonder why desktop preferences  are located
in Applications menu?

The menu bar should be
(gnome logo) >Applications< >Desktop preferences< >Actions<

Marek