On 06/17/2011 02:26 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> This is a common misapprehension, but it's not true. The reason for the >> large icon grid is actually that the developers did real world user >> research (yes, really!) and found that many people had significant >> trouble navigating the typical Windows / GNOME 2 nested menu system full >> of wide-but-short entries. They would lose levels in the nesting by >> moving the mouse a bit wrong. They would launch the wrong thing because >> the target area was too short. This was especially pronounced with poor >> pointing devices - particularly cheap trackpads on cheap laptops. >> >> The Giant Grid O' Icons is navigable with a much higher success rate. > There are less radical solutions for these problems though, see e.g. KDE's > Kickoff menu. (But I can't get used even to that, I use the classic menu > which KDE Plasma also offers.)
I wonder why you recommend solutions you can't even get used to. In terms of usability, it is not clear to me kickoff is doing a better job at all. It is a rather convoluted way of organizing menu items and I had to switch it off and use the classic menu instead. I have used both and I found the GNOME 3 menu interface more familiar and less radical in fact. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
