On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Luis Villa wrote: > Subject: Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout
> > > > - We've nautilus and terminal launchers on the panel by default > > > > instead of evo and epiphany > > > > > > Should we 'fix' that? Certainly we're trying to downplay the terminal.. > > > > I agree. Could you please open a bug about it? :-) > > Done: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307626 > > > > > - The system tray doesn't appear on the either of the default panels > > > > (apparently) > > > > > > Ditto- this one seems particularly bad, in fact. > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223 I agree in the strongest possible terms the terminal shortcut should be removed. We fail as a Graphical User Interface and Desktop Enviroment if ordinary users are forced to use the command line. I expect it will be mildly annoying for more experienced users to add a terminal shortcut to their panel (if their .login doesn't already open a terminal for them) but if any of us feel ourselves reaching for the terminal - instead of eating our own dogfood - it may indicate missing functionality or something needs to be improved. For what it is worth I like my panel to include Show Desktop and a link to my Home directory (and a bunch of other junk not worth mentioning). I notice how in the bug report how the shortcuts are described as $WEB_BROWSER. The shortcuts in each case are set by the distributor to a different hardcoded browser rather than say some kind of link to start whatever has been set in gnome-default-applications-properties as the default $WEB_BROWSER. Sincerely - Alan Horkan. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
