On 1/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 too. > > It's of no use, and worse than other ways of achieving the same > functionnalities.
Its much quicker for different ways of working with menus. I no longer have to hoke through menus to find what I want, and using a trackpad I often have issues with menus disappearing or the wrong one opening. > (Note that I don't have beagle, and that beagle is not > part of GNOME anyway) Whats this got to do with anything? Seems a silly strawman arguement. > > So, a few rants (using gmm from edgy, sorry if it has changed since): > > - "favourite apps" seems limited to 6. I've got 8 in it currently. > But I use: > - xchat-irc, gajim, liferea and such daily > - epiphany, thunderbird, devhelp, gedit, terminal, matlab, pepito, > "home folder" every now. > So that makes obviously more than 6, and those are more easily and > quickly available from launchers in the panel. One less click. Thats 10. I've just added another load of applications to my menu, its now got 12. I can only imagine how much panel space 12 application launchers would take up. *shrug* I don't think its much of an arguement against it. > And, as Alan pointed in another mail, "favourite" is not a good > word: I really don't like pepito. Thats not a very big issue really? > > - "places" is very limited (contains only "computer", "network", > "home" and "cd burner"). Places menu allows me to access all my > local bookmarks and remote locations with one click and, at worst, > one submenu. > As has been mentioned before having a Places menu might help here. The rest of your complaints are really stylistic issues. iain _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
