menu categories [open question for users]

[Luis de Bethencourt]

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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