menu categories [open question for users]

[Luis de Bethencourt]

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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