On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:55 +0000, Iain * wrote: > On 1/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -1 too. > > > > It's of no use, and worse than other ways of achieving the same > > functionnalities. > > Its much quicker for different ways of working with menus. I no longer > have to hoke through menus to find what I want, and using a trackpad I > often have issues with menus disappearing or the wrong one opening. > > > (Note that I don't have beagle, and that beagle is not > > part of GNOME anyway) > > Whats this got to do with anything? Seems a silly strawman arguement. > > > > > So, a few rants (using gmm from edgy, sorry if it has changed since): > > > > - "favourite apps" seems limited to 6. > > I've got 8 in it currently.
How did you get it? The first time when I add launchers it can show all of them. But, for the next session only are shown the first 6, even there are mora launchers selected. > > But I use: > > - xchat-irc, gajim, liferea and such daily > > - epiphany, thunderbird, devhelp, gedit, terminal, matlab, pepito, > > "home folder" every now. > > So that makes obviously more than 6, and those are more easily and > > quickly available from launchers in the panel. One less click. > > Thats 10. I've just added another load of applications to my menu, its > now got 12. > I can only imagine how much panel space 12 application launchers would take > up. > *shrug* I don't think its much of an arguement against it. I tried the same as Steve, because load 'More applications' feels a lot slower, not because its stylistic. > > - "places" is very limited (contains only "computer", "network", > > "home" and "cd burner"). Places menu allows me to access all my > > local bookmarks and remote locations with one click and, at worst, > > one submenu. > > As has been mentioned before having a Places menu might help here. > The rest of your complaints are really stylistic issues. At least to me, IMVHO, more than a stylistic issue looks to me as an usability issue. -- Germán Poó-Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ Concepción - Chile _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list