Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum)]

Ioannis Nousias wrote:
> Ouattara Oumar Aziz (alias wattazoum) wrote:
>> Thank you for this constructive comment. Technically speaking, it'll be 
>> very hard to have every section GUIs merged into one (as those are 
>> different applications). So there is 2 solutions I see :
>> - Using sub menu for section :
>>
>> System
>> ` configuration
>>    | - Personal Info
>>    |   | - timezone
>>    |   | - language
>>    |   ` - About Me
>>    | - Display
>>    |   | - resolution
>>    |   | - appearance
>>    |   ` - screensaver
>>    | - Sound
>>    | - Input
>>    | - Printers
>>    | - Peripheral Devices
>>    | - Network Connectivity
>>    | - Security
>>    ` - Disks and Storage
>>        | - Backup
>>        | - Partition Editor
>>        ` - Maintenance
>>
>> - using some /mini control center Guis/ by section :
>>
>> System
>> ` configuration
>>    | - Personal Info
>>    | - Display
>>    | - Sound
>>    | - Input
>>    | - Printers
>>    | - Peripheral Devices
>>    | - Network Connectivity
>>    | - Security
>>    ` - Disks and Storage
>>
>> Some feelings about these ideas ?
>>
>>   
> It looks nice. My personal view as a user is that menus are 'slow'. The 
> restructuring ideas you guys suggest will certainly speed things up 
> (navigating your way across menu options), but they will still be slow.
> 
> I don't use menus. First thing I do after a fresh install is remove the 
> menu applet. I rely solely on semantic search using deskbar. Deskbar is 
> by no means perfect, but it's much faster finding what you need, from 
> launching applications to those obscure configuration tools.
> 
> It's nice to get the menus 'cleaned up', but if something really needs 
> attention is semantic search across the entire desktop. If well thought 
> and designed, something like deskbar can become really powerful.
> 
> But since we are talking about menus, wouldn't it be cool if by typing 
> in it starts filtering out irrelevant options ? (with a little text-box, 
> like the one appearing in nautilus for instance).
> 
> regards,
> Ioannis

It is true that it is faster to launch the application via Deskbar, but 
to launch it , you need to know exactly what you want to launch. and 
that's why you have a menu (which needs to be well designed) so that it 
drives the user to the application he wants. Then once you have seen the 
  name of the menu entry or of the application, you can use Deskbar .

The KDE4 menu is, I must admit, very well designed as it combines a 
Deskbar with a well organized menu.
A future project could be to use the same model for gnome.