On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 09:29 +1930, Dokuro wrote: > > > What I proposed to him instead, was that the menu ought to demark > > > between sub-categories, something like this (just a mock-up): > > > > > > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/menus.png<http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Epcjc2/geda/menus.png> > > > > > > -- > > > Peter Clifton > > > > It's a nice idea, but I feel that it increases a lot the amount of > > space needed by the menus, they are already too big for 15" screens > > (mostly on the preferences menu since it has more items) on your > > electronic menu it works fine, i could even see it working nicely on > > the music menu (recording, editing, video, music, etc) but it might > > grow to take a lot of screen space. > I think we could tackle that problem simply by merging more preference dialogs together. Off the top of my head, the following preferences could go together: - Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts - Network configuration and Network proxy - Appearance, Screen resolution, Screensaver, and Windows - Personal File Sharing (gnome-user-share) and Remote Desktop If you also look at the Administration menus then there are even more possible merges. > > That is of course a problem. > > I was going to suggest that "too big for 15" screens" was less of an > issue, than the actual resolution in pixels - but this depends on > whether the font and menu sizes are being scaled with the screen's > _physical_ DPI. I can't recall if that is the case or not. > > Since people wanted to reduce the number of items in the preferences > menu, so if that were done - perhaps a few categories might have a > place. Dividing the long list into a few pieces IMO makes it more > navigable than one big long list without the space occupied by the > headings. > > The XDG menu spec does have some adjustments to control how many items > are inlined before they get their own sub-menu. For menus (e.g. > "Electronics", or "Sound & Video"), I wonder if a different heuristic > would be useful.. you don't want to inline a heading for categories > which have just one item in them. You'd probably want to group such > icons into a virtual "Other" category. > > Of course, we'd only show inlined headers if there are more than one in > a given menu. > > The rules do become reasonably complex quite quickly, but I figured it > might work more easily for the preferences menu where the platform ships > most of its contents. > > > -- > Peter Clifton > > Electrical Engineering Division, > Engineering Department, > University of Cambridge, > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > Cambridge > CB3 0FA > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > -Natan
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