On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Martin Dengler <mar...@martindengler.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Drake<d...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > Indeed, this menu is difficult for new users at lesat, who often have > > > trouble moving the mouse cursor into the menu box itself (as it starts > > > in the top left of it) and then maintaining the mouse inside the menu > > > box while they move to the desired option. > > > > I have seen lots of problems with that menu too > > While we're slagging off that menu, a random design thought is: how > much of that menu could be replaced with one or two device tray icons? > > Two: Control Panel and Shutdown (or Power: Shutdown/Sleep/ExtremePM) > > One: Sugar-or-XOman icon with Control Panel and Shutdown palette > entries Haha, I mentioned that same idea to Daniel literally the same minute I saw your e-mail... :-D My thought goes along the lines of the menu popping up on hovering across the XO representing yourself / your XO really only containing options related to the configuration / setup of your system. Anything hardware related could then be moved into the frame as per your suggestion. Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
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