On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 13:31 +0400, Alexey Rusakov wrote: > В Срд, 29/07/2009 в 11:18 +0200, Rodrigo Moya пишет: > > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 13:04 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > We have done essentially this (with the extra Preferences menu in > > > between) for a few releases in Fedora, and we have gone back to using > > > a single Preferences menu by default now. The two main problems we > > > faced with this are > > > > > > 1) deep menus are hard (your approach kinda avoids this by nuking > > > Preferences) > > > > > > 2) The categories are not clear enough to find what you are looking > > > for without constantly strolling through several submenus. > > > > > > I don't think any amount of reorganization will make the menus really > > > good. A menu system is just not a good fit for this amount of data > > > that is not very strictly categorized. > > > > > > I'd rather see us focus on moving away from these menus via > > > gnome-shell and and new control-center shell. > > > > > I think all those menus could perfectly be replaced by a 'Control > > Center' menu item, and then have the control center shell provide an > > easy way to search for stuff > Control Center as it is now takes even more of screen estate; besides it > is a separate application, so the action that is now two-click for me > (open the menu; find and activate the necessary item) becomes > three-click (open the menu; run Control Center, another window opens; > find and activate the necessary item). Moreover, the task termination > sequence from one-click (close the settings window) becomes two-click > (close the settings window; close the Control Center window). Don't see > how a user wins in this approach. > well, that's if you know which tool you need to start. But when looking for stuff, it becomes much more than 2-clicks, since you'll need to click a menu item, a window opens, look for stuff on that window, close it, and repeat again until you find what you're looking for.
If the control center capplets provide a list of keywords in their .desktop file, searching for 'mouse cursor' on the control center shell search would show the correct tool that the user needs to start. I think something like that is a big win for most users, if done right -- Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list