On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:20:26AM +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 11:32 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > > > X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar > > > > Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule > > > > Keywords=email;calendar;contact;addressbook;task; > > > > Categories=GNOME;GTK;Office;Email;Calendar;ContactManagement;X-Red- > > Hat-Base; > > While that's good, it's bad user-experience to have to hover over each > item in a menu to find out what it is, instead of being able to easily > tell just by reading the menu. > > At least in old Gnome, MATE, and some other desktops, you still have a > structured menu where you can find things. The desktops which have no > menus and just splatter all your applications as a huge page, or pages, > of icons in alphabetical order (like tablets and mobile phones), are a > user-interface disgrace. Touch screens are all the more worse as you > can't hover a pointer over an icon for a hint, you've got to do a long > press and wait. Everything about it makes it slower to use.
I agree that the lack of hierarchical menus is a pain in modern GNOME implementations. The keywords help for if you start typing at the application menu, as well as finding the software in the GUI Software application. I feel like the deficiency isn't in the Desktop Entry spec, but how the desktop environment is implemented, which is why I still use MATE. -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
