On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:27:08AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 08:43 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
That I don't see what good menus are. I have to know the name of the application I need to add it to a menu, therefore I might just as well enter the applicaiton name on a terminal window.
Because Menus tell you what is available and (preferably) group it by task.
No they don't, they tell me what the compiler of the menu thinks may be useful. No menu system I have ever seen offers the full range of possible cammands you can enter in a shell.
Imagine a restaurant where there is no menu, the only way you can order food is by correctly pronouncing the first bit of the dish....if you pronounce it incorrectly or they don't offer that dish then you are told that it's not available, even when it is but you pronounced it incorrectly or there is a very similar dish that is called a different name.
Imagine a restaurant where the menu is a several hundred page book....