Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 25 juillet 2007 à 19:35 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : >> >> Menus, by their nature, are inherently unusable for the most frequently >> >> used apps, and we should not be trying to make them more usable at the >> >> expense of making less frequently used apps harder to access. >> > >> > Why shouldn't we attempt to make menus usable? >> >> Because, as Marvin wrote in the text you cite, the drawback is that it >> makes less frequently used applications harder to access. > > If an application is used so infrequently, it shouldn't have its place > in a menu.
It seems we have a very different notion of what a menu is. To me, the reply "Exactly because it is used infrequently it should have its place" is obvious and follows strictly from my understanding of a menu, I don't even need an argument for that. To you, it seems to be the contrary. > Furthermore, in the case a user needs it more often, he can > add it to the menu. This becomes even easier if the menu entry is only > hidden, not absent. But it seems to be harder than adding it to the toolbar/dock/whatever. >> But I agree with Marvin (and that's also my usage scheme) that menus >> should provide access to the less frequently used applications, not the >> ones started very often. I don't have toolbars in my WM, but it starts >> the frequently used apps without asking me, so I use the menu for the >> rare ones. > > This is also my usage scheme: everyday apps in the session, less > frequently used apps in the menu, rarely used apps in a terminal or a > launching tool. I don't make this distinction between "less used" and "rarely used", and I'm not even sure what a launching tool is. I nearly never start a graphical application from the terminal, and I don't need to be able to start terminal applications from the menu: For me that is the only reason for deciding whether something should have a (possibly hidden) menu entry. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
