[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

[Andrew Watkins]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote:
>>  On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:08 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
>>  > I also don't see the point in cluttering panels with needless menus if
>>  > they're already available through the "Launch" menu.
>>
>>  I agree, but currently we don't have the 'Launch' menu on the panel in
>>  Indiana... so we need to decide which to go with. (One advantage of the
>>  Apps/Places/Systems menus is that broader and shallower menu systems
>>  are, generally, easier to navigate than narrow and deep ones.)
> 
> I too was initially thrown off when I first saw the "shallow menus" in
> GNOME when I used Ubuntu.
> 
> After I got used to it though, I loved it!
> 
> I personally am in favour of keeping the Apps, Places, System menus as
> I think they are great for easy navigation.
> 
> It's so much better than having one large menu and having to dig
> through it for commonly used things.
> 

I am still a big fan of the old JDS layout and with the one panel at the 
bottom and one launch menu. I know it was there to look like Windows XP, 
but it works. I know and the end of the day it does not matter since we 
can change it to any which way, but I still believe that we should have 
a slightly different look and feel than the standard GNOME interface.

Andrew