On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:43, Glynn Foster wrote: > Do people really use the quick launch stuff?
Not under JDS, but under Windows XP that's what I almost always use. But there I can completely edit it, so in my case it's got Firefox, putty, and the VNC viewer. I think one of the things I would have to say generally about the JDS/gnome menus is that I really can't get on with them. In particular, the ability to modify them is something that I find essential to keep things under control. > How does its useage compare > with say, a desktop icon or a panel launcher? What desktop? That's valuable screen real estate. I want to have running applications use that, rather than having to keep half the screen area clear to find the icons. In the case of JDS, I end up dropping launchers onto the panel, but I don't find it works as well. > Yeah, that's rather unfortunate as well. However, you seem to admit that > there's a lot of merit in the current community layouts - perhaps we > need to start from there, and see what absolutely *has* to change. I'm > not sure 'familiarity with JDS 3' is altogether that important - do > people really remember menu contents and locations? Would a new layout > really surprise them a whole deal? I think change generally is bad, as users rapidly learn the menus and then automatically launch by place. We had a lot of trouble when SDX shuffles the CDE layouts a bit - my users almost universally complained. (I also used to have a curses based menu system. Users simply memorized the menu location. They all knew that 3 <RET> 5 <RET> would pop up pine, and we learnt very rapidly never to change the place of an application in the hierarchy.) -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
