Task-based menu (was: Re: [Usability] New way of accessing software)

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Mark Finlay wrote:

> /me loves this idea. I's much better than just fiddling about with the
> applications menu. Application should not be like a desktop environment
> unto themselves.

Well it's not exactly a new idea. Mandrake has been doing this for both
KDE and GNOME (the "what to do" menu) since 9.0. Perhaps we can draw some
inspiration from this (strong / weak points).

> OT: I started wondering if I'd gone mad recently when I decided that
> having a file slector at all is just a workaround for having a broken
> file manager/desktop envornment.

No, you haven't gone mad. Not too surprisingly, mpt has covered this topic
already:*

http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374 (point 3).

regards,

* Not in any way intended to sound patronizing... ;-)

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