[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:20:07 +0000

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> also agree with Stephan that we should think about reorganizing the
> Deskbar menu. What is funny is that the current order is really more
> suited for the Deskbar at the bottom of the screen (a la Windows), yet
> our default is to have it at the top right corner. One approach might
> be to change the order of the menu depending on where the Deskbar is
> located. Though maybe this sort of morphing would be as annoying as
> the versions of Microsoft Office with menus that hide unused items
> (which destroys the use muscle memory in choosing menu items.) It
> might at least be worth experimenting with.

Though the muscle memory would only be destroyed when the user changes
the location of the Deskbar.  And even then, it would eventually
become predictable for each location.

--mmadia

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