<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Martin Dengler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:<br> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Drake<<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org">dsd@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br> > > Indeed, this menu is difficult for new users at lesat, who often have<br> > > trouble moving the mouse cursor into the menu box itself (as it starts<br> > > in the top left of it) and then maintaining the mouse inside the menu<br> > > box while they move to the desired option.<br> ><br> > I have seen lots of problems with that menu too<br> <br> </div>While we're slagging off that menu, a random design thought is: how<br> much of that menu could be replaced with one or two device tray icons?<br> <br> Two: Control Panel and Shutdown (or Power: Shutdown/Sleep/ExtremePM)<br> <br> One: Sugar-or-XOman icon with Control Panel and Shutdown palette<br> entries</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Haha, I mentioned that same idea to Daniel literally the same minute I saw your e-mail... :-D</div></div><br clear="all">My thought goes along the lines of the menu popping up on hovering across the XO representing yourself / your XO really only containing options related to the configuration / setup of your system.<div> <br></div><div>Anything hardware related could then be moved into the frame as per your suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Christoph<br><div><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br> </div></div>