On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:05:35PM -0000, Peter Onion wrote:
I'm now confused about what point you are trying to make.
I was simply saying that a menu with twenty or thirty entries is fine, and useful, but that one with hundreds of entries isn't useful.
Do you know what a "sub-menu" is ? Do you know how to organize information hierarchically ?
It's not for me to organise it surely. If I know the commands I can just as easily (and more quickly) type them in at the command line.
But you don't need a menu entry for every possible command line you may ever use.
... but where we came in was - 'how do you find that command you don't know about'. I am suggesting that menus don't really help as they (like icons) are pre-configured and can't cover all the possible commands (not command lines, I mean just the names of the utilities) that are available.
What I do is to use 'man -k' when I can't remember what the command to do something is. It's *very* rarely that I will find what I want by searching through menus and just about never by using icons.