[Sugar-devel] moving Shutdown above Control Panel

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Christoph
Derndorfer<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Here in Nepal we're moving the Shutdown option on the home menu above
>> > Control Panel.  It is now the top of our two-item menu (we have also
>> > removed Restart and Register)
>> >
>> > The reasoning for this is that Shutdown is needed much more often than
>> > Control Panel, so we want it nearer the mouse when the menu opens.
>> > Indeed, this menu is difficult for new users at lesat, who often have
>> > trouble moving the mouse cursor into the menu box itself (as it starts
>> > in the top left of it) and then maintaining the mouse inside the menu
>> > box while they move to the desired option.
>> >
>> > any interest in this change being made in sugar for everyone?
>>
>> As the existing behavior hasn't been backed by real experience, I
>> would say we (the developers) want this change unless another deployer
>> is opposed.
>
> During dinner Daniel and me talked a bit more about this issue and a useful
> extension of this move would be to remove the "reboot" button from the menu
> as well. The reasoning here is that we can't think of a single in-school or
> even general use-case where a reboot is really necessary. If Sugar itself
> requires a restart to apply some changes (e.g. in the control panel) it
> cleary communicates that anyway.
> What do you guys think?
> Christopoh

+1

-walter

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