Bug 75512

Summary:	Menu layout is very confusing
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Toralf <bugzilla>
Component:	redhat-menus	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0
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Description Toralf 2002-10-09 12:29:42 UTC

Description of Problem:

The menu layout is very confusing in Red Hat 8.0. I'm having a hard time finding
anything at all, and if I do find it, it's sure to be under "Extras".

The default GNOME-2 menus, on the other hand, are very clear and easy to use -
and I've tested this on (relatively) computer ilitterate friends, too.

Enough said, I think.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-09 14:58:53 UTC

GNOME2 is a lot easier because there are a lot less applications involved.
(Note that our categories are just copied from GNOME2)

Anyway, thinking of moving Extras into the individual submenus, and other such
stuff. But menus are more of an ongoing work item than a bug that can be 
finally closed forever one day.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68843 ***

Comment 2 Toralf 2002-10-11 13:25:30 UTC

Quite. But i'll reopen with a few specific suggestions:

1. Change "Preferences" back to "Desktop Preferences" (a more informative name.)
2. Move "Server Settings" entries to "System Settings".
3. Merge "System Tools" and "System Settings", or possibly rename entries.
4. Move common apps like Gnumeric, Abi Word and Mozilla out of "Extras", or
completely remove "Extras"
5. Try to get rid of "Others"...

To put it differently, I feel that there are 3 main problems with the current
layout:

1. The distinction between "Preferences", "Server Settings", "System Settings"
and "System Tools" is not quite clear. Also, it is easy to confuse "System
Settings" and "System Tools" when browsing the menus simply because the entries
appear next to each other and have similar names.
2. Too many top-level entries.
3. Many common apps end up under "Extras".

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-11 14:27:58 UTC

Yep, thanks for the suggestions. We're working on it. ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68843 ***