On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:43 -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote: > > Do you mean the one pictured > > <http://linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/celena/mintmenu.png>? > > Yeah, that's the one. Sorry I wasn't more clear and didn't attach a link > to a picture. It's not a drop-in replacement for the current gnome-menu, > but it has some excellent features: > > 1) The search field > 2) You can mouse over Submenus to pull up the menuItems > 3) It's pretty > 4) The favourites menu > > It's written in python right now, and it's a little unresponsive at > times when other programs are running. > > Also, since the gnome control center seems to be aiming to incorporate > all the Preferences and Administration capplets, we could eventually > remove these Submenus from the gnome-menu and have just the control > center available. In any event, if the gnome-menu does undergo a > redesign, it'd probably best to implement it first as an option between > the "classic" menu and the "new" menu. > > Ciao, > benjamin >
To be honest, I actually like that the current gnome main menu is made up kind of like an application menu bar; you quickly see which categories there are and can choose the one that fits your task. A single menu quickly tends to get pretty big (see also the SLED menu or even the windows xp/vista menu). Horizontal space is also not a big deal, at least not in the stock gnome / ubuntu case of having two panels. I would really go with this design, I don't know why very few other alternative menus follow this concept. (Gimme is the only one I can think of, but is has it's own issues currently.) Cheers, Denis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
