On 5 Apr 2008, at 00:20, Stephen Hahn wrote: > Is there a usability or ergonomics reason behind the right hand side > panel options, versus left-hand side? (When I use a side panel, I > usually put it on the left hand side, because then any panel menus > will open to the right.)
Only that the desktop icons go on the left in GNOME, and there's now way to change that (other than manually arranging them). So having both the panel and the icons on the left would make it even harder than usual to keep any desktop icons peeking out from behind your windows, as they'd be displaced towards the centre by the width of the panel (which would also just look kind of visually unbalanced and ugly IMHO). Whether that's any worse than having the panel menus open to the left is certainly debatable, though. (From what I've seen of the quick poll so far, though, nobody really wants that panel anyway.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
