On 25.02.2011 02:12, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le vendredi 25 février 2011 à 00:09 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : >> On 24.02.2011 21:15, Michael Scherer wrote: >>> Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 20:30 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit : >>>> With a two-level system it would be considerably less and closer to the >>>> ~7 you mention. >>> >>> Depend, what is the process that you are wanting to improve ? >>> ( and closer is not good enough, even if 15 is nearer to 7 than 20, >>> that's still too much and a different process is used ( according to >>> studies )) >> >> No idea. IMO finding the wanted application is faster when it goes >> Internet => 5-7 submenus => each with 2-5 app entries >> instead of the current >> Internet => 20 app entries, plus 10 more in "More" > > Yes. But I think that what some people want is > Internet => 30 apps. > ( ie, suppress More ) > > Citing tux99 : > > "I'm pretty sure that if we make a survey among Mandriva users the > majority will be saying they don't like apps hidden behind "More" as it > currently happens, they would want them in the higher level with all > the other apps of the same type." > > So maybe I misunderstood. > > What need to be taken in account too is also the case > Internet => 5-7 apps. > > Having : > Internet => 5-7 submenus => 1 app entry > is IMHO clearly suboptimal. > > ( ie, 1 step more to get application , on a total of 3, that's a lot ).
The menu style file [1] allows for "inline_limit" attribute which specifies a minimum entry count before the submenu is added, otherwise the app entries are added to the parent menu instead. So e.g. submenus with less than 2-3 apps could be "merged" to parent submenu. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html -- Anssi Hannula