Re: [Usability]GNOME main menu and panel

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:43, Jeroen Verhoeckx wrote:
> Does anyone know who is responsible for the GNOME main
> menu?? Because it's terrible!! 

I think it was ximian....

> For example: screenshot as a main menu???? strange,
> strange. How can anyone take GNOME serious this way?
> Gnome must get a new menu, probably something like
> WindowsXP. People of KDE are also working on something
> like this. (I think it will be even better that XP)
> Can someone write a program like this?
> I would like to help designing the interface...

The window xp start menu sucks pretty bad as well. If anything just
using the file manager for launching applications might be preferable
alternative to application menus in general, but i'm not totally sure.

> 
> And does anyone know who is responsible for the choice
> of having two panels as default instead of just one at
> the bottum?

Once again i think ximian started the idea, but Nils at sun played a
pretty large role as well. He knows quite a bit about usability too.

http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/panel/menus.html

> Because this simply doesn't work. (Where is the
> usabilty?????) It uses more space than needed. It
> looks terrible when you have your window maximized.
> 

It's customizable change it if you don't like it... (this of course is a
bullshit answer, but hey i like the default)

> GNOME will never been taken serious and will never be
> used by the mass if this doesn't change.
> The default must be one panel at the bottum!!!

Translation:

If you don't copy windows your fucked....

> 
> I would like to see GNOME more usable and used by more
> people.
> It's also very important for companies like Ximian if
> they want to sell there software. (Companies have to
> take the software serious)
> 
> Greetings jeroen

Of course If i had it my way we would rip off the mac and put the menus
at the top of the screen, but that just isn't in the cards. Sorry for
swearing so much in this email..

dave