I demand that Josselin Mouette may or may not have written... > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 13:40 +0000, Darren Salt a écrit : >> [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).
> The freedesktop.org specification does not impose a layout. You are > probably talking about the KDE, GNOME or Xfce menu. Hmm? I was under the impression that they all included the same auto-generated file... >> 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... > So, I take you will propose to split the Puzzles menu into Easy Puzzles > and Hard Puzzles? Or by the first letter? No; it's more that packages which add a *lot* of menu items should add a submenu for them. Alternatively, some further subdivision by type (not necessarily making the menu tree deeper, though). > If one package alone adds enough entries to make a submenu unusable, > maybe the problem is not in the menu layout but in the package. Agreed. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ & http://tlasd.wordpress.com/ "We don't play on paper; we play on grass." - Sir Bobby Robson -- 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/50ef6f82dc%li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk