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Re: Start Menu Concept

 

Sounds good. Now, I want to test that and see how it will work on my desktop
(or laptop). It may just be too much of a clutter for people like me, who
don't bother using menus for launching because of GNOME Do.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 10:10 -0700, David Hamm wrote:
> > http://i.imgur.com/0bC6I.jpg
> > Idea's taken from:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476241
> > imo, id have just applications and recent with a side arrow to expand
> > either, knocking out the places when expanded.
>
> I think the best UI I've deployed for users has been this:
>
>
> http://mulenmar.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/une10_04-desktop.png?w=500&h=375
>
> It's amazing how much the older folks respond to nice big icons on their
> desktop, but icons that are categorized on their desktop.
>
> Shame that it's being replaced with medium sized unity icons, I hope we
> can still get the netbook-launcher, because it's still something I
> install on desktop machines.
>
> Martin,
>
>
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