[ubuntu-art] Elegant Brit

[Dylan McCall]

It's a bit off topic here, but on the topic of GNOME Do, I've always
thought it would do well if it never disappeared. Rather, it would be
visible behind all windows by default, then switch to being on top
when the user presses the hot key. That way, it could indeed serve as
an excellent launcher and be very discoverable.

Only two issues:

-First off, it uses Mono. I frankly don't mind at all (in fact I still
like Mono because the project is responsible for the best IDE in this
whole ecosystem). However, that could get the BoycottNovell loonies up
in arms. Again.

-Secondly, users have to know what they are looking for to find
something with GNOME Do. Thus, it has to be secondary. GNOME's main
menu may look old fashioned, but the reason we still use it is because
it is the only one of the bunch (and I am definitely counting
proprietary desktops here) which has been well designed. The Places /
Applications / System sections are fantastic because users don't need
to learn some obscure button to click (like "Control Panel, located to
the middle right of the menu"); they instead just need to categorize
what they are looking for, which is pretty easy. In addition, this
being a simple menu is really helpful when we think about the tunnel
vision users; the types who phone for help because they have managed
to completely Not Notice the large grey area occupying the right side
of Windows' Start menu.

So, I semi-agree, but not as The launcher; merely A launcher. It would
have to look secondary, though, which may be tricky.

Bye,
-Dylan

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Michael McKinley <m.mckinley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 6:18 PM, fruchtschwert <fruchtschwert at freenet.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 18.06.2008, 01:28 +0100 schrieb Who:
>> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Conn <subpsyke at eircom.net> wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Who <mailforwho at googlemail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>   * Distinctive: No other OS looks like this BUT it doesn't break
>> > >> usability.... I.E it's unique and usable... All elements (with the
>> > >> possible exception of the menus that really need an outline if you
>> > >> want to use them without a shadow-porviding WM)
>> > >
>> > > If by "usability" you mean "the ability to use", I'll have to
>> > > disagree.
>> > > There is no way a mainstream distribution should sacrifice basic
>> > > accessibility for aesthetics. In case you didn't get what I'm hinting
>> > > at,
>> > > it's the razor-thin scrollbars and scale sliders.
>> > >
>> >
>> > My bad, you're right about these.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I wanted to propose a very flexible and amazing launcher for intrepid,
>> GNOME Do!
>>
>> http://do.davebsd.com/
>
> I like the idea.  When I used KDE, I was a big fan of Katapult.  One thing
> we might want if this was included is some sort of Tracker integration (I
> didn't see it mentioned on the website/plugins list)
>
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