Hi everyone On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 21:57 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Il giorno lun, 07/05/2007 alle 21.41 +0200, Christian Jäger ha scritto:
Hm. I think I might be slowly getting somewhere with these mocked-up layouts; especially the integration of application-browser and control-center look functional to me. I wish I could code that, now...
main-menu: http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8469/cleangnomemainmenumockuzv9.png app-browser: http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8961/appbrowsermockup3io4.png control-center: http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1451/controlcentermockup3dw9.png
I like the integrated app-browser. Now we have to hope someone at Novell is reading and considering your ideas. Yes, someone is. With a lot of interest. Couldn't find the time, however, to reply earlier.
I don't know whether you know of Marco Barisione. He had similar ideas back when the first SLED 10 SP1 screenshots were released: http://www.barisione.org/blog.html/p=74 I'd love to see more community action when it comes to the main-menu. There is however a limitation to what can be done: AFAIK, the main-menu is mainly driven by usability tests and not by feature requests. So every idea must first be tested in the lab. And if you have seen posts or listened to interviews regarding the main-menu, it is not always the obvious that people find easy to use. So while these might be good ideas, there is still the question on whether they make it through the usability lab.
In my experience, it's better to write on the -project or -factory mailing list because they're more frequented (please put me as CC, I'm interested in this discussion). You might also be interested in the -ux list, which used to be the usability list and now has a much broader spectrum: user experience.
You might also file a bug against main-menu and mark as an enhancement. One bug for each feature-request. The team will try worthwhile features and you'll either see it in a update or it gets rejected for usability reasons (if the feature failed in the tests). Sidenote: No, I'm not involved in the development of the main-menu. Regards, Josh -- Jörg Kreß <jkress@suse.de> YaST2 Development _________________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org