Here is a 30k ft view of what a menu editor might look like to me: -An application that mirrors the look of the menu -Allows drag and drop -No saving/applying, but allow undo (remember state)
Any thoughts on this? Corey On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:31:55 +0100, Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.02.2005, 18:44 +0000 schrieb Alan Horkan: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:45:30 +0100 > > > From: Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Usability] any menu editor suggestions? > > > [...] > > > Do you see any room for improvement? > > > > [1] > > > http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/gnome-menu-editor-0.1.tar.gz > > > [2] http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/README > > > [3] > > > http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/gnome-menu-editor/screenshot-0.1.png > > > Does the list get sorted when you click on the column heading? (I do see > > that the titles are already sorted alphabetically anyway, so this is only > > a minor point). > > Presumably things like drag and drop reordering, > > This looks contradictory. What to do if the user displays multiple > directories at once and wants to sort the column? We have to decide > whether the display order affects the actual menu layout order. > > > and the ability to move > > more than one item at a time and other things like that will come later? > > I'd be happy to file bugzilla requests if you like. > > Of course, feel free to do so. I'd appreciate it :). Note that there is > not yet any bugzilla component for gnome-menu-editor, so you'd have to > create a new one. It would really be nice if you could handle that. > I'll most likely import gnome-menu-editor into GNOME CVS today. > > I'd still like to know whether this is meant to be turned into a > full-fledged menu editor, which would allow adding application launchers > and other nifty things, or whether it should provide only very basic > functionality. I already received some private mail with proposals on > more sophisticated functions, we have to be sure on how this app should > look when it has reached 1.0 first, though. > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
