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The System menu is not intuitive, items are organized mostly by scope
(preferences vs administration) moreover there is a third menu in
Applications > System Tools. It would be interesting to ask users in
which of the 3 menus they would expect to find a given application.
Applications that modify system-wide settings already require privilege
escalation, so there is no need to reiterate the concept in the menu
structure. Moreover this results in a lot of items grouped in a few
menus, making it even harder to find what one wants.
It would be more user friendly to have items grouped by task instead.
Gnome-control-center already follows a similar scheme, and its groups
could be used as a starting point.
I would personally recommend the following groups:
Look & Feel
Appearance
Screensaver
Windows
Main menu
Assistive Technology
Keyboard shortcuts
Software:
Software sources
Update manager
Package manager (g-a-i)
Advanced package manager (synaptic)
Preferred applications
Software languages (language support)
Computer Janitor
Hardware:
Hardware drivers
Display
Keyboard
Mouse
Sound
Printing
Default Printer
Bluetooth
System testing
Networking:
Network connections
Network tools
Network proxy
Remote desktop
Firewall
Storage:
Backup
Partitioning tools
Search and indexing
Compression
Disk usage
Synchronization
Users & Groups:
Login Window
Users and Groups
Authorizations
About me
Encryption and Keyrings
Passwords and Encryption Keys
System:
Log file viewer
System monitor
Services
Power management
Terminal
USB Startup Disk Creator
Time and Date
Help
Help and Support
About Ubuntu
About Gnome
** Affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided
Status: Won't Fix
** Affects: gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: ayatana
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Gnome system menu should be better organized
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/387830
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