Custom Partition Fedora 18

jonc jonc at downfromthetrees.com
Tue Feb 19 16:29:54 UTC 2013


On 02/19/2013 10:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> It's these "modally tiled UI" which do not meet my "menu-based/multi 
> workspace" dominated office-workflow and lack of customizability of 
> the DE. That's why neither Unity, Gnome 3 nor Cinnamon meet my demands.
>
> Ralf
There's a problem with providing access to executables that no one has 
solved very well.  A modern platform -- Linux, Windows, OS X -- contains 
hundred, if not thousands, of executables that a user may, at some 
point, want to locate and launch.

The usual approach has been menus.  This works fine within limits. But, 
when the number of menu entries exceeds some threshold, the menu becomes 
cumbersome and unwieldy.

The "screens of big icons" approaches in iOS, in the Launch Pad of OS X, 
and the App Overview in Gnome Shell, are really menus with text entries 
replaced or supplemented by icons.  Gnome's Overview retains the 
hierarchical nature of the Gnome 2 menus, although it's well disguised.



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