Comments on: Reinventing the desktop (part 2): I heard you like lists… http://brianwill.net/blog/2009/08/02/reinventing-the-desktop-part-2-i-heard-you-like-lists/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Setras http://brianwill.net/blog/2009/08/02/reinventing-the-desktop-part-2-i-heard-you-like-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-3971 Setras Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:38:01 +0000 http://brianwill.net/blog/?p=707#comment-3971 You have very interesting ideas, but the one massive list working depends rather heavily on tags (or remembering program names) and I'm not convinced of it's feasibility. What happens when the programs don't have premade tags that are intuitive for me? Do I then go through every option in the menu and add the tags I want there for every item in the menu? And then do this on my work computer, my laptop (linux x 2) and my desktop (windows and linux x 2)? I'll admit to being somewhat of an extreme example, but I think the point still stands. And if I'm ever using someone else's computer I'm all lost again. What I'm afraid of is that I'll replace one kind of information I need to remember (settings of a program can be found in the Edit menu on linux and Tools menu on windows) with another kind of information (Program/Action X can be found behind search word Y). You have very interesting ideas, but the one massive list working depends rather heavily on tags (or remembering program names) and I’m not convinced of it’s feasibility. What happens when the programs don’t have premade tags that are intuitive for me? Do I then go through every option in the menu and add the tags I want there for every item in the menu? And then do this on my work computer, my laptop (linux x 2) and my desktop (windows and linux x 2)? I’ll admit to being somewhat of an extreme example, but I think the point still stands. And if I’m ever using someone else’s computer I’m all lost again. What I’m afraid of is that I’ll replace one kind of information I need to remember (settings of a program can be found in the Edit menu on linux and Tools menu on windows) with another kind of information (Program/Action X can be found behind search word Y).

]]> By: Lars http://brianwill.net/blog/2009/08/02/reinventing-the-desktop-part-2-i-heard-you-like-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-3951 Lars Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:20:14 +0000 http://brianwill.net/blog/?p=707#comment-3951 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4 Seen this? One point they make is that rearranging stuff like office 2003 menus is bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4

Seen this?

One point they make is that rearranging stuff like office 2003 menus is bad.

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