I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... [snip] > The layout sucks: a good menu is hard to do because it must not be too deep > (too many clicks/movements to reach an application) nor too crowded (too > many applications in one submenu). The Debian menu is an achievement in > failure itself, since it manages to be both too deep and have crowded > submenus.
The freedesktop one is too shallow; it has crowded submenus as a result (particularly its games submenu, IME). Plus, as noted elsewhere, a lot is missing from it. The Debian menu could probably do with a little splitting up here and there (sgt-puzzles, for example, adds quite a few menu entries to Games→Puzzles), a bit of merging here and there... > Furthermore it mixes applications, settings, and random unrelated stuff, > without any consideration of accessibility of said items. That would be a matter of reporting bugs on packages which place items in the "wrong" places. > A window manager switch item (something you won’t ever need, actually) is > more accessible than a terminal or a web browser. Maybe a little reorganising is needed; but if the desktop menu happens to have a generic top-level "web browser" item, that ceases to be a problem. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + This comment has been censored. I'd like to, but I promised to help a friend fold road maps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ef6a670c%li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk