Hi,
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 18:54 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Some more changes/additions across the board, but mostly to the
> applications section, which you might like to review.
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~calum/nevada/ui-spec/apps.htm
>
> The plan is to post a "final first draft" of the whole spec tomorrow,
> which, if everyone's happy with, will be the one we start to
> implement in Vermillion next week. After that, changes will be more
> controlled, but once people get their hands on the real thing, we'll
> probably still want to fine-tune things based on user feedback. So
> don't panic if you can't face reviewing the whole document over the
> weekend :)
I'm still not a fan of our JDS 3.1 layout, and much prefer the community
version where they've rolled the Applications menu into the top level -
it feels infinitely more useful and more consistent across the desktop.
Your proposal doesn't mention anything about how the menubar applet
changes, or how nautilus Go menu might change.
Generally, I don't really like the churn we're imposing from the GNOME
default - unless there are really good reasons to do so. It's more
patches, more localizations, and consequently more cost [1] - and yes,
more pain because I'm tasked with doing a lot of these changes ;)
Specific issues -
o Choosing an application, I have to go through 3 sets of menus, as
against the communities 2. I'd personally prefer having to go
through more pain for preferences that you're less likely to need
on a daily basis.
o The [username] submenu is really going to look out of place. I'm
not even sure I like the 'Logout gman...' anymore. Perhaps we
could do something like adding the about-me icon and username to
the menu stripe to indicate who's session this currently is like
XP.
o Preferences menu is pretty large. I think we could remove things
like gconf-editor and sessions at the very least.
o I don't think we should include at-poke in the menus
o I think we plan to EOL the games, no?
o Save Screenshot/Take Screenshot - is the string change *really*
that crucial?
o I really hate the Staroffice 8 menu items.
o I wonder if 'System Tools' should match 'Administration'?
Glynn
[1] And yet more delta between other GNOME vendors out there - Red Hat,
Ubuntu, Novell, Nexenta, etc..
