Re: Why second panel is needed?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 29 Mar 2009, at 18:17, Александр Бежашвили wrote:

> *GNOME Panel doesn’t give possibility to find necessary application  
> and
> don't be misled in menu lists.*
>
> *These 3 menu items grow up, but work with system is more and more  
> harder
> with them.*
>
> *Users don’t have easy possibility get what they want, and what  
> they really
> use.*
>
> Button of fast access to often used applications and directories  
> will be
> more easy-to-use.
>
> Common user rare add applets to second panel. And others do it only  
> because
> they wanted that this panel would be wanted.
>
> And what common user know difference Administration applications from
> Preferences in System menu.

These would make good hypotheses for a usability study... but without  
any data to prove them, they're really just opinions.  And everyone  
has a lot of those :)

Fortunately, the guys working on the new GNOME shell are throwing away  
the current panel ideas, and re-thinking the whole desktop model from  
the ground up.  You might want to read:
<http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell>

and join the discussion over at:
<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list>

> *Miguel de Icaza uses openSUSE with Windows-like menu.*

/me bites tongue :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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