Re: [Usability] An idea (menus and launchers)

[Carlos Moreno <moreno_pg mochima com>]

Kevin Carlson wrote:
> I like the idea, at least for the launcher. I'm not sure how this 
> would work in a menu, unless you out a menu option that would create a 
> new document

Not necessarily --- the way I see it, the modification both for the 
launcher
and for the menu, is equivalent.

With the launcher, the way it is right now, you click on it, you open the
application;  if the application by default opens with a blank, 
newly-created
document, that's its business, and the Desktop environment has no saying
in that.  Exactly the same thing with the menu.  You click on the menu for
the application, and the application simply opens  (with or without a blank
document).

So, with the modification I proposed, both would get an exactly equivalent
modification:  if the user has never opened documents for the particular
application, then both the launcher and the menu would be exactly as they
are right now.  As soon as the user opens a document, then the launcher
gets its little arrow to open a list of recent documents, and the menu item
gets a sub-menu with the list of recent documents.

IMHO, both are necessary to maintain consistency.

Thanks,

Carlos
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