Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks
On 10/24/2002 7:02 AM, Riku Voipio at riku.voipio@iki.fi wrote:
> According to UI guidline my former workplace, some study said
> that most end users can comprehend menu structures three levels
> deep and five items per menu.
>
Thanks for the tip. I agree wholeheartedly about going no deeper than three
levels. And wherever possible, I hope Debian Desktop can limit items per
menu to five or six. But some menus are simply going to have to have more
than this. I am thinking something like the "Preferences" or "Settings"
menu, or whatever it is called.
> Ofcourse, that is not enough for a debian system where every single
> debian application is installed, but trying to balance the most common
> used applicaions into a 5^3 structure should be easy.
>
Well, maybe not toooo easy ;-) But yes, putting only the most commonly used
applications into the menu hierarchy should be easier within the 5^3 context
than puting in all available X apps.
Cheers,
Luke Seubert
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