On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:41:16AM +0200, Emile van Bergen scribbled: [snip] > > Solitaire > > Miner > > Multimedia > > Music Player > > CD Player > > Movie Player > > > > And what hides behind these labels doesn't matter to our Joe user. They see > > the same entries whether they use KDE or GNOME. No need to make the > > distinction on the menu level. That has one additional advantage - unified > > documentation. > > This is an /excellent/ idea, IMHO. Those semi-humorous gnome/kde > application names don't mean anything to the average computer user > anyway. Yes, I agree. All of us might like them, but then, we're not newbies :) > One more thing to keep an eye on is grouping of items. Of course this > can be done by creating hierarchies like you suggest, but as has been > pointed out numerous times, that can be very bad from an ergonomic > standpoint. An alternative could be to replace the group container with > a thin separator line. That would result in a spagetti length menus, which isn't good as well. Menu scrolling out of the screen edge is not a very plausible view. And remember that not all users have 19" monitors in the 1600x1280 mode :-) marek
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