On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Matthew McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > If the five different menus are already cluttered, then you're not going to > > make something less cluttered by just munging them all together. On the > > other hand, if it's possible to simplify each of them enough that munging > > them together works, then it should also be possible to usefully simplify > > them without munging them together at all, saving the user a click or two > > every time. > > > > You are right. But at the moment in the Gnome shell a user could potentially > have deskbar running as an applet, pidgin with its own list and status > listings, and the 'Applications', 'Places', 'System' menus, and then there > are the sub-menus for each category of apps etc. So in this situation we > have a large distance between applets and allot of screen real estate used > up. Is there much lost usability-wise if these were merged. I think it makes > some sense to consolidate certain core functions into one location > (search/places/apps/settings)? Considering that search _already_ overlaps with places, apps, and settings, it certainly makes sense to some degree. More importantly, however, we have a tradition of using menus for everything possible and _that's_ the biggest issue that needs to be fixed in the next generation desktop shell. (If you can find me a usability study that likes menus then I'll eat my hat.) On the topic of menus, has anyone thought about using Gnome Journal/Online Desktop style tabs on the side of the screen instead of menus? > > Also some things are used with lower frequency, so the fact they are lumped > with a menu would have less impact. IMHO it makes sense for the 'System' > menu to be merged into some other menu. Ideally a user should not be having > to go to the Systems menu all that often. > > > Regards, > Matt > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > -Natan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
