Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 01:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 19:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > > dialogs together. > > > > > > Off

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 19:09 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > dialogs together. > > > > Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together: > > -

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > dialogs together. > > Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together: > - Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts > - Network configuration and Network pr

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Natan Yellin
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 10:45 -0500, Natan Yellin wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton > > wrote: > > > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference > > dialogs together. > > > > Off the top of

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Natan Yellin
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 09:29 +1930, Dokuro wrote: > > > What I proposed to him instead, was that the menu ought to demark > > > between sub-categories, something like this (just a mock-up): > > > > > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/me

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 09:29 +1930, Dokuro wrote: > > What I proposed to him instead, was that the menu ought to demark > > between sub-categories, something like this (just a mock-up): > > > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/menus.png > > > > -- > > Peter Clifton > > It's a nice idea, but I

Re: [Usability] Sub-category based grouping of icons in GNOME menus

2008-12-26 Thread Dokuro
> What I proposed to him instead, was that the menu ought to demark > between sub-categories, something like this (just a mock-up): > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/menus.png > > -- > Peter Clifton It's a nice idea, but I feel that it increases a lot the amount of space needed by the menu

Re: [Usability] Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

2008-12-26 Thread Jacob Beauregard
I don't know HOW this thread started, but the only thing that web browsing and file browsing have in common are bookmarks, addresses, and linking (though in completely different manners). An HTML file should be viewed, and not treated as a meta-folder for the reason that it is nothing like a folde