On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:20:18 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: [....] > In fact, these difficulties with hierarchical menus were one of the main > underlying motivations for the design of the shell overview. Not > surprisingly, the shell overview does not have these problems, mostly. > The primary mode of interaction with the overview is search; you just > start typing. [....] I'm not sure I know what overview that is. (I still can't launch Gnome on my F15 machine, and have been running KDE4 there.) How is that paradigm meant to apply to those absent-minded souls among us who disremember what an otherwise familiar item is called? There are a bunch of things (in fact more as time passes, alas!, especially anent renamed ones) that I find by groping toward a mental picture of something "down over about there." My verbal memory is crammed with languages living and dead, but my pictorial memory has a little room left. The baby in the hierarchical bathwater was considered, certainly, as appears in a post shortly below (James Laska is corroborating Adam Williamson) : >> [...] the idea was that categories were >> used to keep things properly ordered, and the only way we could >> guarantee people *didn't* wind up with giant lists to scroll through >> was >> to categorize everything properly. Something winding up in Other was >> proof that it wasn't correctly categorized, hence, problem! > Bingo! I was trying to recall history reading old mailing list posts, > but Adam nails it. That matches my recollection of where that criteria > comes from. Am I missing an obvious remedy?? Since it was considered, surely some remedy *was* found and accepted. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
