On Sat, 13 May 2006, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:47:47 +0100 > From: Shane M. Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Future of the menu top bar? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Alexandre Silva wrote: > > You make a good point. Having the top menu makes more sense to me too. > > Perhaps we should have more information regarding these tests, questions > > like what kind of users where targeted (i'm not talking demographics > > here, but it would be good to know where they come from), the size of > > the sample and tests duration, pop in my mind. > > As a follow-up, I believe that it could be very useful to ask Novell et > al why they have made certain decisions with regards screen layout. > Their decisions would not have been taken lightly, and their process > might enlighten us.
There is quite a lot of information already available at betterdesktop.org showing videos of what Novell were testing. > Alan, you mentioned before that GNOME is currently lacking user > profiles. To be clear this is something which has been suggested before, I was only referencing it. I have seen the idea work out roughly before in a simple way for one application but I wouldn't want to presume it would work well for a large collection of applications with a diverse userbase but I dont think it would do any harm to try if anyone gets around to putting in the work. -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
