On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:52:32PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Marcelo E. Magallon"> > > > What I really miss in the VFolder proposal are categories such as > > "Viewers", "Math" and "Shells". The whole games section is not granular > > enough. > > You have to remember that users find overbearing heirarchy confusing and > invasive.
And exceedingly long menus are ok ? Maybe a solution would be to keep a hierarchical representation, and have the menu automatically adjust. If there are only a few items in a submenu, then it is 'inlined' in the parent menu, with maybe a separator of some kind, but when either the parent menu becomes too big, or there are to many items in a submenu, then it is displayed in a submenu. Ideally, there would be a way for each user to set this inlining or not, so each submenu could be either in a submenu, inlined or automatically determined. Or maybe you could set priorities for submenus, so the more prioritary submenus would get inlined more often than less prioritary ones ? You could then set this priority, either by a most often accesed algorithm, or by the user. One level menus are all fine, but you have to remember that gnome has only a few applications, while debian has many more applications that would want to go into the menu. Friendly, Sven Luther
