Re: [Usability] any menu editor suggestions?

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

Here is a 30k ft view of what a menu editor might look like to me:

-An application that mirrors the look of the menu
-Allows drag and drop
-No saving/applying, but allow undo (remember state)

Any thoughts on this?

Corey


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:31:55 +0100, Christian Neumair
<chris gnome-de org> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 28.02.2005, 18:44 +0000 schrieb Alan Horkan:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christian Neumair wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:45:30 +0100
> > > From: Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
> > > To: usability gnome org
> > > Subject: [Usability] any menu editor suggestions?
> > > [...]
> > > Do you see any room for improvement?
> 
> > > [1]
> > > http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/gnome-menu-editor-0.1.tar.gz
> > > [2] http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/README
> > > [3]
> > > http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/screenshot-0.1.png
> 
> > Does the list get sorted when you click on the column heading?  (I do see
> > that the titles are already sorted alphabetically anyway, so this is only
> > a minor point).
> > Presumably things like drag and drop reordering,
> 
> This looks contradictory. What to do if the user displays multiple
> directories at once and wants to sort the column? We have to decide
> whether the display order affects the actual menu layout order.
> 
> > and the ability to move
> > more than one item at a time and other things like that will come later?
> > I'd be happy to file bugzilla requests if you like.
> 
> Of course, feel free to do so. I'd appreciate it :). Note that there is
> not yet any bugzilla component for gnome-menu-editor, so you'd have to
> create a new one. It would really be nice if you could handle that.
> I'll most likely import gnome-menu-editor into GNOME CVS today.
> 
> I'd still like to know whether this is meant to be turned into a
> full-fledged menu editor, which would allow adding application launchers
> and other nifty things, or whether it should provide only very basic
> functionality. I already received some private mail with proposals on
> more sophisticated functions, we have to be sure on how this app should
> look when it has reached 1.0 first, though.
> 
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