[216] in Athena User Interface
Re: Usability testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed Jun 21 13:31:51 2000
Message-Id: <200006211731.NAA25284@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Jun 2000 12:04:03 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:31:42 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/21 you wrote:
> > - Should the panel be more than one row? (Window taskbar can be
> > heightened just by dragging; this is convenient for cluttered
> > desktops.)
>
> gnome-panel doesn't really support that IIUC, but you can have N
> panels.
I am not sure what you are looking for here. Panel can have only one
row of panel objects. The tasklist applet, which is what gets
cluttered when people have lots of windows open, has two rows by
default and can be made to have more.
> > - Should the right-click popup menus onthe panel be diabled or
> > synched?
>
> What is "synched"? Certainly they shouldn't be disabled.
The issue here is that there are two menus, the "GNOME Menu" which you
get by clicking on the foot, and the "Main menu" which you can get in
other places, such as by right clicking on the panel.
Both menus get their top level folders from the same pool of like 8
items (Programs, Favorites, Applets, Redhat ...). By default they have
the same items, which makes it (IMHO) confusing the first time you
configure one and the other doesn't change.
I think that as part of smacking the GNOME Menu around we should
seriously consider making the Main menu identical to the GNOME Menu
(or the Athena Menu, if we call/do that). If it is too hard to make
them the same, then I would seriously consider configuring the Main
Menu to have no items by default or something similar.
tibbetts
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