Hi George,
We need to get back to common use like, Display, install/uninstall programs, etc which the end user would understand without having to read a manual or wiki to figure out what it does or what it is.
Yes, I think you hit a very good spot here, which is important for the next step, when it comes to categorization/wording of modules.
Ease of use is just as important as having thousands of programs.
Maybe even more :-)
People know if they just used a program or area of a menu so what purpose would this solve?
The idea behind that was that by increasing the size of an icon (target area) the user need less precision and therefore less time to hit it (Fitt's Law). The other benefit is, that the program become visually salient and therefore easier to detect. But as some other people already mentioned, there are some downsides to it: * items don't group as easy as they would do, when they had the same size, which violates basic design principles like Gestalt laws * the presentation of icons is disturbed Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org