From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: I love the direction the newer redhat-menu's are going.. consistent icons and good user friendly names make it a lot more usable for new users. However, a few things struck me as posible good improvements: - Include gimp in graphics.. its to much of a killer app, and even non advanced gfx users want to be able to rotate pictures and simple jobs like that for which the gimp is quite usable. - More consitent naming for system/settings programs, forinstance if you start the 'Disk Management Tool' you get an application with the title 'User Mount Tool'.. i could imagine this would confuse a user - In graphics, not every apps has a user-friendly name (XSane, xpdf, GQview in my case) - I would sugest including gftp in the internet menu.. not everyone would use this, but it's a relativ 'major functionality' still - The same for PAN (News group reader)? - Include xine as DVD/Video player in Sound/Video ? (there's no dvd or video player in the current menu's.. be good to offer that functionality) - Include the 'CD Writer' in system tools? Again, 'major' functionality All in all i would think the guideline for the menu's could be: as little as posible, best of breed applications, but including every major application type (and ofcource i would still love to see the settings/system settings/server settings menu's condensed into a single menu (settings) with sub menu's (system, server) to clean up the number of entries on the main menu a bit) Ps, would it be posible to default the windows and ctrl-esc keys to pop up the main menu? This is one of the very few shortcuts that i have seen used by not-so-advanced-users. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-menus-0.21-1
all fair comment.
I have some other suggestions: System Tools and System Settings can cause some confusion, and it doesn't allow for quickly scanning the menu by just looking at the first couple of letters. My suggestion is to either put everything into a menu "System" (the settings and the tools), or rename "System Tools" to "Tools". Cleaning up the current system tools would be nice too: We have two tools that deal with floppys, I propose to move the gfloppy tool to the Extras-menu, and keep the disk management tool. Kickstart isn't a descriptive name. Suggestion: "Automatic System Installer", "Auto-install", or something like that. Rename "Print Manager" to "Printer", and add the capability to add printers. Rename "Red Hat Network" to "Software Update" Rename "System Logs" to "Logs". We are already in a "System" submenu, so the user knows that Logs have something to do with the system. The same goes for System Monitor.
A couple of other things: In KDE, at least, there are a bunch of submenus. One of them is "Extras," which then replicates the same submenus but with different packages. This is Silly. Simply merge everything in "extras" back into the main menu. (I did an 'everything' install) I know this is a kde issue rather than redhat, but the KDE menu should really be easily editable.
Many of these issues still exist, i'm going to change the product to something recent...
Obviously, keeping this bug open doesn't achieve anything in terms of actual changes. Closing.