Shawn Walker wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Watkins <andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> Shawn Walker wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:08 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: >> >> > I also don't see the point in cluttering panels with needless menus if >> >> > they're already available through the "Launch" menu. >> >> >> >> I agree, but currently we don't have the 'Launch' menu on the panel in >> >> Indiana... so we need to decide which to go with. (One advantage of the >> >> Apps/Places/Systems menus is that broader and shallower menu systems >> >> are, generally, easier to navigate than narrow and deep ones.) >> > >> > I too was initially thrown off when I first saw the "shallow menus" in >> > GNOME when I used Ubuntu. >> > >> > After I got used to it though, I loved it! >> > >> > I personally am in favour of keeping the Apps, Places, System menus as >> > I think they are great for easy navigation. >> > >> > It's so much better than having one large menu and having to dig >> > through it for commonly used things. >> > >> >> I am still a big fan of the old JDS layout and with the one panel at the >> bottom and one launch menu. I know it was there to look like Windows XP, >> but it works. I know and the end of the day it does not matter since we >> can change it to any which way, but I still believe that we should have >> a slightly different look and feel than the standard GNOME interface. >> > > If I remember right, Ximian GNOME used to have this "visual > preferences" dialog that you would get on first login. > > It allowed you to easily switch between a set of "default styles" that > configured it so that the panel was at the top and bottom, or only at > the bottom like Windows, etc. > > KDE desktops used to do the same thing too, don't know if they still do. > > While I don't think such a question should be at startup (bad design > imo and scary to new users), I think that making it easy to switch > between a set of different default layouts would be good to have. > > Some sort of tool under settings / appearance would be neat. > > I could see a default layout configuration that was more suitable for > CDE users for example ;) > > Regarding KDE, they still do prompt the user for a desktop experience setting. (Windows, Mac, UNIX, and KDE)
Don't know about KDE, but I doubt they changed it, as the desktop looks the same from screenshots. James
