menu categories [open question for users]

[Luis de Bethencourt]

I'm opening it for ideas for 2 weeks, the 20th of July I will
package/upload the new version and it will be late for new ideas.

So start throwing them now!

Luis de Bethencourt

On 7/6/07, Cory K. <coryisatm at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see some more chat/thoughts from users on this one. :)
> Remember, you guys will have to use this like we will. With this thread
> we're giving you a chance to voice your thoughts. Take advantage of it.
>
> -Cory
>
> Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > We got some menu category organization...
> > check this forum thread to see how it now works and to download the
> > deb to use it.
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474628
> >
> > Luis de Bethencourt
> >
> > On 6/6/07, Luis de Bethencourt <bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Jacbo's proposal seams to be good, but I will give this thread a few
> >> more days to see if anyone proposes something different and we can
> >> decide.
> >>
> >> About what Oscar said, after we make the categories we can decide were
> >> some "in the middle" apps fall. And the keeping the "sound & video"
> >> and adding other, it's not going to happen, because (a) it is
> >> confusing for the user; (b) with how the gnome menu system it wouldn't
> >> work.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help, keep posting!
> >>
> >> Luis de Bethencourt
> >>
> >> On 6/6/07, Oscar <spacepluk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> That would be a nice structure for the menus, but there are lots of apps
> >>> that will fall in several of these categories. Personally, I would be happy
> >>> with just a Pro-audio menu with all music-production-related-apps inside it.
> >>> And letting the Sound & Video menu alone with standard ubuntu's 'user'
> >>> multimedia apps like XMMS, VLC, etc.
> >>>
> >>> Saludosss
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> PS: excuse my english
> >>>
> >>> 2007/6/6, Jacob Creedon <jcreedon at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> Video and Audio definitely should be in separate categories. Video has few
> >>>>
> >>> enough programs to be a single menu on it's own, but Audio is another story.
> >>> There are more audio programs than both graphics and video combined, so I've
> >>> divided my audio programs into the following categories:
> >>>
> >>>> -Recording/Editing (I can only think of one, maybe two, pieces of
> >>>>
> >>> recording software that doesn't also edit)
> >>>
> >>>> -Sequencing
> >>>> -Synthesizers
> >>>> -Effects and Signal Processing
> >>>> -Other/Misc
> >>>> And then I have a playback category, but it includes both audio and video
> >>>>
> >>> playback applications.
> >>>
> >>>> On the subject of application launchers... There are a few GUI programs
> >>>>
> >>> that have to be started from the command-line that are semi-ignored
> >>> (timemachine and meterbridge come to mind). It would be nice to have a
> >>> launcher that would open a terminal and print the usage for the command so
> >>> that people can work from there. Or maybe that would be too cluttery.
> >>>
> >>>> Jake
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6/5/07, Luis de Bethencourt <bethencourt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I made the following question to developers... but we think it woulI'ved
> >>>>>
> >>>>> be nice to have some user feedback on this one.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> YOU can help decide how the next release of Ubuntu Studio is going to
> >>>>> be, so please do!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Luis de Bethencourt
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >>>>> From: Luis de Bethencourt <bethencourt at gmail.com >
> >>>>> Date: May 16, 2007 11:27 PM
> >>>>> Subject: menu categories
> >>>>> To: ubuntustudio at lists.ubuntustudio.org
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hey guys,
> >>>>> Right now in Ubuntu Studio's menu we have a huge "Sound and Video"
> >>>>> category. Were to grab for example xmms, you have to scroll down for a
> >>>>> while before finding it. This is obviously inconvenient.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Other Ubuntu derivates have already tweaked the menu to have other
> >>>>> categories. I will be taking edubuntu's idea for it. I have already
> >>>>> been playing around with it and can have it done in a few days. But...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Which categories do you guys think we should have?
> >>>>> Sound and video being two categories?
> >>>>> More specific categories like Sound editing and Sound recording?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What do you think?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Luis
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
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> >>>>>
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