> I thought that a good start menu could be judged by such criterion as below:
>
> 1. how many clicks your mouse need to perform before you can find a right
> item to act on.
> 2. how long a path your mouse have to move before you can find a right item
> to act on.
I agree with these principl
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Alex Railean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the benefits of the widget is that you can add some programs to
> the top level of the menu (in Windows it is called "pin to Start
> menu"). In contrast, the typical Gnome menu does not offer this
> feature and you're
> Also, I'm sometimes jealous of systems where frequently accessed items
> automatically appear in a more accessible place. However in the very
> limited user testing I've done in completely unrelated software shows
> that people are often surprised when things change automatically.
To counter tha
1. To be blank, I took it for granted at the first sight that the reason why
gnome made three menu items on the panel was that it was not possible to
implement a complicated start menu like windows using current GTK/Gnome
technology. That is one of the reasons that drive me up to design this Start
By the way , I want to find a free ftp site to upload my RPMS of the
modified gnome-panel with my start menu, for a preview purpose. They are
about 4M each. Do you have any good ideas where I should put them?
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Long Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. In my opinion, recently used objects should be divided
> into three categories: programs, documents, and locations.
That's an interesting point. 90% of the time I hit the "Places" menu
it's to view something that's in the b
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Long Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. In my opinion, recently used objects should be divided
> > into three categories: programs, documents, and locations.
>
> That's an interesting p
OpenSUSE does have a start button different from gnome, but it has an
interrupted user experience, as the "All Applications" can only be found in
a seperated windows of application browser, not a submenu in the start menu.
While the "recently used applications" is a key feature of Suse start menu.
As for the comment about things that change automatically: are users
also surprised with "Most Visited" in Firefox or, in a Windows-style
start menu for instance, if it were labeled "Most Used Applications"
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