On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 15:34 +0000, James Ogley wrote:
There is a way to change this. In gconf : /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/system-area/package_manager_item
I think here's an important point and it affects the Favourite Applications section too. Bizarrely, it never occurred to me that that might be GConf controlled (turns out to be under /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/file-area) and I'm an uber-1337 GNOME-master (ahem). It looked like these were Novell's favourite apps.
If gnome-main-menu is going to be seriously usable (especially if it's accepted into upstream), there needs to be an obvious way (perhaps a 'Choose Favourite Applications' button next to the 'More Applications' one) of editing this list.
We were concerned about this, however in our user testing right click and drag and drop were found and used.
The 'More Applications' list is another important thing to look at. At the moment, it launches the application browser which, frankly, is rubbish. It would make a lot more sense if pressing this button simply opened the Applications menu, as a menu.
User testing did not show this to be rubbish actually. The speed at
which it opens is an issue. User testing did show that hierarchical
menus are awful for most users since they don't know where to look.
There is an enhancement idea to make More Applications do more of a
traditional menu as an *option* for users who do know what they are
doing with a hierarchical menu however.
-JP
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JP Rosevear