On 16 March 2012 08:24, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote: >> But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is >> the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/ > > Are you sure about this? I am not. Most of the friends I help with > Ubuntu are only interested in the apps they use. These are very non > geeks. They have no interest whatsoever in all the other stuff, and > this is most obvious when in a support conversation I state an app and > its (menu) path in the menu structure. The menu path is an issue for > them, and is treated with great reverence like some ritual. For > myself, I have fairly good knowledge of the content of the menus even > though I do not use many of the apps. > > I believe that in future, all I need to do is tell them to type the > app name, and then run it. If they want to be independent, what they > will do is use the dash and then drill down, as I will. I do expect > that there will be a way to drill down or display all installed apps > whatever. > > I think that most of the world's population ( =future Ubuntu users) > will be happy or even, happier, without menus.
No, I'm not sure, it's just a feeling. I moved from Android to iOS this year and I miss even Android's rudimentary menus. I hate the phone-style big-mess-of-apps launcher screens. I find it overwhelming and daunting. Menus are browseable. That's how I learn what options I have. Sure, then I use keystrokes to select the options I want - because I learned to use PCs before the era of the mouse - but to learn what the options *are* I like menus. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
