[219] in Athena User Interface
Re: Usability testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 21 20:09:50 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 21 Jun 2000 20:09:41 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:31:42 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1h3dm6mv96.fsf@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
Right. You can make the tasklist (or pager, whichever we decide to
use; I prefer the pager) have many rows. The panel will get wider as
necessary to accomodate the extra rows.
My comment meant that having only one row of applets is not such a
lose, because you have have many panels scattered around the screen
instead of only one as with Windows.
> > > - 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.
Ah. Right.
> 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.
Certainly if we change one we should be changing both if we don't make
them absolutely identical.
