Hey, On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:21 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > 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.
Yeah, there's a lot of hard coded stuff in the menus - anything under Applications can be changed, everything else is set. It was possible to edit the Quick Start stuff in JDS, although not particularly obvious. Even the new menu editor doesn't allow you to easily add new menu entries. > > 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. For Solaris users we've had consistent menu changes for *every* new version of GNOME - currently that's only 2.0 and 2.6. Looks like we'll do the same this time around. I'd be keen to get it right this time around, and I'm not overly confident of that :/ Glynn
