Il giorno dom, 06/05/2007 alle 13.43 +0200, Christian Jäger ha scritto:
True. Though this is rather a rare use-case. But you could argue in a similar way that one needs a button for 'workspaces' in the menu.
I was just considering how many times I use that button. And it's quite often. Of course it's not a big problem if it is removed for better usability. I would just prefer to have it. ;-)
So put the 'install software'-button next to the 'More...'-button in the menu/the app-browser, where the user will need it.
Hmm. Maybe it's functional (I'm not convinced) but it looks terrible.
What would you say; would it look good if was placed like an application-button? Here's a new go at the menu:
Mockup: http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3136/cleangnomemainmenumockudg0.png
Yes! Better :-)
Moreover I would love to see that More... disappear and be replaced by an arrow which opens the full menu (XP style, to be clear) and not the application browser.
It would be kind of a break of consistency to introduce a pop-up menu but I see that it would be practical. But couldn't you try to keep it flat and not collapsing? Especially older people tend to get easily frustrated when they move the cursor a little and sub-menus disappear again.
I agree. It's frustrating to have the menu disappear if you move the mouse.
How about this - you could either make the menu behave like its KDE-counterpart and scroll column by column:
Mockups:
App-browser: http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9922/appbrowsermockup2lj4.png App-browser scrolling: http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/129/appbrowsermockup2scrollvb0.png
Yes. A kickoff-like behaviour would be OK.
Or you could let it extend horizontally like this:
Mockup: http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6345/appbrowsermockup2extendsc1.png
This is risky. If the screen has a low resolution or the menu has many sublevels, you risk to have not enough space to show it all and you would need horizontal scrolling.
Yes; I would imagine a simple status-bar would do for the disk-space and a simple symbol for on-/offline? Enough to almost subconsciously realize that everything's in working order (or not)?
Yes. And maybe with additional info in a textbox which appears when you put the mouse on the symbol. About who's working on the menu actively, I'm not sure. In the about dialog there are these four names (the email are there too): Rodney Dawes Jim Krehl Scott Reeves Dan Winship For sure S. Reeves and J. Krehl are working on it because they answered to my questions/bugreport about the memory leak. Regards, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org