On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 11:29 -0500, jonc wrote: > There's a problem with providing access to executables that no one has > solved very well. A modern platform -- Linux, Windows, OS X -- > contains hundred, if not thousands, of executables that a user may, at > some point, want to locate and launch. > > The usual approach has been menus. This works fine within limits. > But, when the number of menu entries exceeds some threshold, the menu > becomes cumbersome and unwieldy. > > The "screens of big icons" approaches in iOS, in the Launch Pad of OS > X, and the App Overview in Gnome Shell, are really menus with text > entries replaced or supplemented by icons. Going from a small menu, that may expand into more than one column, to more than one screenfull (for the basic setup), that expands into several screenfulls of icons that you can only see a small portion of at any time. The search function tries to sidestep that problem, but brings new ones. User has to know what to type, either the name, or an associated keyword that the programmer may have filled in. And the fun tablet interface meant for touch screens, where one doesn't have a touch screen, involves using both mouse and keyboard, and heaven help someone actually using a touch screen table who has to keep on calling up an onscreen keyboard to use the search gadget. Congratulations, someone has actually made a user interface device that is worse than the mouse. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
