On 12/19/05, Ryan Lortie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realised today that I really don't use the "recent documents" feature > of the Places menu at all. > > I think the reason for this is that the menu item is in a really > inconvenient place and barely recognisable at all.
I actually use the recent documents menu quite a lot, and find the bottom placement quite useful, as it's easier to point at the last entry in a menu than somewhere deep in the middle trenches. > I think the functionality would be a lot easier to find and use if the > "recent documents" item were moved to the top of the places menu. It > might also be worth while to move the search item up there too (but not > above recent documents). > > If it were at the top of the menu the muscle-memory value alone would be > huge (right now muscle memory is practically useless for this item). > The very concept of recent items is to make it as easy as possible to > access (practically by definition) your commonly used documents. > > The "home folder" item would not be significantly impacted because it > would still be a short distance away (just a tiny bit more). Even if > existing users have built up a memory for this they won't be too badly > affected since releasing the mouse button (or clicking) on the "recent > documents" sub-menu won't do anything unexpected. Even if I use the recent documents item alot, I really, really don't want to see it replace the home destination plus my bookmarks. I use RD alot, but home and company is probably the most clicked-on items anywhere in my panels, so it makes sense (atleast to me) to give this more prominence at the top. > Just a random not-particularly-developed thought :) > > Cheers. -Ø -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
