On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 10:37 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> I'd much rather see a menu used only as a short list of favorite
> applications and common actions like "logout" and have a real app
> browser for everything else.
Well, this is straying from "start here" a bit. But here are some
ideas:
1. Do away with start-here: (done?)
2. Place launchers for applications: and favorites: in computer:
3. Create a favorites menu applet similar to the menubar.
4. Fix the bugs in the favorites: handler such as the broken trash
can.
5. If feasible, replace the "main menu" with an applet that can
embed into a panel.
6. Record all application launches in the run dialog MRU. (Everyone
realizes they can drag launchers from the run dialog, right?)
7. Create a MRU menu applet which generates itself from the run
dialog MRU. This applet would look like the new main menu
applet.
8. Fedora's default "main menu" could then be a drawer with the
main menu and mru applets embedded.
9. For extra credit, modify drawers to support "text beside
icon" (and fix them so they don't run off the edges of the
screen), implement the favorites menu like the proposed mru and
main menu applets, and this would replace both the menubar and
main menu with a normal drawer that embeds favorites menu, main
menu, and mru menu.
I went into some (rambling) detail and made a couple of mockups:
http://webaugur.com/dave/blogger/2004/07/gnome-menus-and-start-here.html
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