Re: [Usability] Future of the menu top bar?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:47:47 +0100
> From: Shane M. Coughlan <shane shaneland co uk>
> To: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Future of the menu top bar?
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> Alexandre Silva wrote:
> > You make a good point. Having the top menu makes more sense to me too.
> > Perhaps we should have more information regarding these tests, questions
> > like what kind of users where targeted (i'm not talking demographics
> > here, but it would be good to know where they come from), the size of
> > the sample and tests duration, pop in my mind.
>
> As a follow-up, I believe that it could be very useful to ask Novell et
> al why they have made certain decisions with regards screen layout.
> Their decisions would not have been taken lightly, and their process
> might enlighten us.

There is quite a lot of information already available at betterdesktop.org
showing videos of what Novell were testing.

> Alan, you mentioned before that GNOME is currently lacking user
> profiles.

To be clear this is something which has been suggested before, I was only
referencing it.  I have seen the idea work out roughly before in a simple
way for one application but I wouldn't want to presume it would work
well for a large collection of applications with a diverse userbase but
I dont think it would do any harm to try if anyone gets around to
putting in the work.

-- 
Alan