Hi, On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 13:27 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > Question: I've often heard in usability studies people basically > > asking for basically a basic layout of information in the UI to be > > like Windows... not that they want a clone of Windows, but just > > that this is what their muscle memory and mental familiarity > > expect. With this in mind, I wonder why we aren't doing something > > more like Windows XP's Start menu, which is dual columned and > > separates recently frequently used apps from links to common places > > in the filesystems/dataspace, and so on. I'd think that would be > > better for the familiarity/usability of this environment. > > Have to say I loathe the two-columned menu and turn it off whenever I > get the chance :) But I'd be happy enough to experiment with it if > we have the engineering resources to do so. That would be a pretty > major functionality patch I suspect though, and one of our goals is > to reduce the already-high number of those we maintain, so that may > be one for the back burner this time around. (If, as Glynn says, > Novell are going with it for their next release, though, we may not > have to wait too long.)
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html#top It's a new menu applet, so the original panel menu is the same, but obviously not shown on the default panel. Glynn
