Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout

[Karim Nassar <karim nassar nau edu>]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:12 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:

> What matters is that they provide the user a browser, that's all. I'm
> trying to understand the user goals they are meeting, which appears to
> be 'mail client', 'web browser', etc.

Seems to me that with the amount of room on the top panel, and the fact
that a GNOME marketer started this thread, that this is a fine place to
"advertise" some of the finer bits of free software available. My use
case is a new user asking "what the !# $ can GNOME do for ME?", AKA "But
in <my old/current OS> I had program <foodeydang> to do <something>"

My suggestions (in no particular order):

* Music Player
* Video Player
* DVD/CD burner
* DVD/CD ripper
* Web Browser
* File Browser
* Mail Client
* Chat Program
* Image Viewer
* Photo importer
* Text editor or (if installed) Word Processor, Spreadsheet
* Help (as per a recent thread to which I cannot find a link)

It is my opinion that most users will do what I did and modify the
panels to suit their needs. Even if I'm wrong, there sure is a lot of
space in the top panel to provide for exploration.

--
Karim Nassar