On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:43 +0000, Scott Lavender wrote: <snip> > therefore, my sole focus is *NOT* to have funky menus, but to help newer > and inexperienced users navigate easily through work flows. as long as > another mechanism is employed to address this concern, then i would fully > support reverting the menus to a less contextual, more application defined > menu structure. <snip>
I just don't think for anyone, new or veteran user, it is self-understood that an audio application like Audacity is in the video menu because the menu is based around workflows. There is nothing that helps the user understand that this is the case. Also, AFAIK, no other menu system in any other OS is, so no one is at all expecting it to be. So, how is a the menu helping anyone if this is the case? If you want to help the user to find applications for their work flows, the first place to start is to create workflow documentation. This is by far the easiest solution, and such documentation is easy to include in the OS, with a link on the desktop, or in the menu. I don't see any excuse to why such documentation should not be created, and used as a basis for anything else work flow based. So, that is simply the first place to start IMO. A second step could be to create an application that guides the user to workflows. That application could be just a window with starters, or a full blown session manager. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984970 Title: Audacity and Inkscape are in the video production menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-default-settings/+bug/984970/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
