On 01/24/2011 03:15 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Office
The top level could just as easily be called 'Document'Between the two I think the latter plus an "s" makes more sense. Maybe expand to "Documents and Publishing". Home users need documents, but not necessarily office.
I'm searching, unsuccessfully, for a verb that works here or something more descriptive. Office, Document or Documents are nouns and don't seem to impart the "create this here" paradigm I'm looking for. I think a word that conveys this toplevel holds "The core applications you use everyday" would be best.
Maybe we just called it "Drudgery" or "Salt Mine Apps" ;-)
Seriously, maybe:
Core Applications Documents Apps
I'm still searching
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Edutainment& Health
Edutainment & Games probably shouldn't be distinguished.
I agree with the distinction here. If there are going to be 2 toplevels, then I like the traditional:
Education Astronomy Chemistry Language Mathematics Teaching ( this seems a bit redundant -- maybe 'Teacher Tools' )
Games (the normal time killers)
I think subdividing media into graphics and multi-media is artificial. On Windows systems I put VLC, Adobe Reader, IrfanView, ITunes and so forth in a "Media" "folder" in "Programs".
It may just me be, but when I think of media on a computer, I think of (the thing). The disk, the floppy, the cd, etc. I agree that 'Multi-Media' is a bastardization of a description of an old 286 with a sound card.
I think of 'Graphics' as the manipulation of Bitmap or Vector formats and it fits well for the apps that do one of the other.
As for multi-media, I have always thought collecting the apps that do 'Audio-Video' together. Including all the burning and ripping and video editing tools. If we embrace the term 'Media' as the toplevel, then I think
Media Audio CD/DVD Tools Graphics Video
has a logical flow.
Network (I think Network is a subfolder of Settings, and the Toplevel should be 'Internet' or 'Inet')
How about just "Connections"? Or, "Sharing"?
I thought about alternatives, but unless you are using minicom or kinternet, just about everything you do or connect to goes across the LAN or WAN as TCP/IP. 'Internet' or 'Internet & Connectivity' just works well for all the apps like konqueror web browsing, Firefox, Opera, Tbird, Kopete and the like.
Connections & Sharing makes me think of SMB, NFS, etc.. which I usually find under 'System/Network'
Settings
I like SUSE's "Personal Settings" to distinguish their many from the many system settings.
System
User-Apps
Seems like department of redundancy to me.
Lastly, the 'quicklaunch' appSimilar to Windows quick launch. Certain things everyone needs frequently ought to be there, while the main menu needs as many of either "most recently used" or most frequently used" as fits without exploding the main menu into a second column.
+1, Thanks Felix :)