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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] New menu structure proposal
From:       Marco Romeny <marco () mimecom ! net>
Date:       2004-01-14 15:18:02
Message-ID: 40055DAA.1050709 () mimecom ! net
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Goetz Waschk wrote:

>>Isn't System/CD Burning quite hidden?
>>System/ is where support goes, or teccies, but my mom would not dare
>>to even open that menu - or even my fairly techsavvy wife.
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>Yes, that's what I mean. It shouldn't be that hidden.
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I guess we agree on that CD-Burning does not belong under 'System' ?


>>Ok, I can agree with that, but 'Multimedia' is such an... ugly,
>>outdated, long word for wathing DVD's or listening to music. Maybe
>>rename it to 'Music & Video' would do it.
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>OK, why not? BTW I think it could be further divided into submenus for
>players and content creation stuff.
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Or why not have
Music & Video/
                xmms (MP3)
                ogle (DVD)
                vlc (Video)
                ....
                /Creation/
                         HelixProducer (Real)
                         k3b!(CD-Burning)   <- as well as in the other 
categories, maybe
                         ......

I don't like to have to navigate away a thousand levels to find my program.
The menu should have priorities:
-Using Programs/Viewing Data  <- Browsers,Emailapps etc.
--Making Data <- Editors, Graphapps
---Confiuring Programs <- MCC, KControl
----Making Programs <- Dev stuff

As it is right now, most dists have dev stuff pretty high prioritized, 
like if my mom
would ever touch KDevelop. User stuff is fairly hidden and nonintuitive 
categorized
and tidied up in a way that does not fit the fuzzy brain of normal 
beings. Although
most - I guess - on this list sees themselves as smarts and logicals, 
it's still the technicians
logic we see in the final result.

>>Btw, shouldn't medias in rpmdrake be called mediums? I might have
>>gotten it completely wrong though.  'What medium would you like to
>>use to install....?'  - 'CD' or 'FTP'....
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>We already had this a few months ago, I don't remember the results.
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Call it all 'stuff' - put the stuff in the computer and we'll install 
it..... :)



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