A review of Linux Mint Celena. "I think Celena is a breath of fresh air. It is the best GNOME distribution I have ever used. The artwork is simply amazing, I think PCLinuxOS must take a hint or two from Celena. Strong emphasis is given to integrating the theme with applications. I can see the hard work Mint developers have put behind custom applications like Mint Menu, MintUpload, MintAssitant and Mint Control Center. They have done a commendable job and made our lives easy. They have not followed the trend and have included KDE applications, wherever they felt the need."
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Member since:2005-11-11
Yeah, scrollbars in a menu just doesn't strike me as a good thing.
Unfortunately the KDE devs seem to disagree with that sentiment. Kickoff will be the menu in KDE4, with no planned option to use the old menu. Their decision is based on usability studies, therefore users can't criticize it.
So there you go. Even though I cringe whenever I hear about "a usability study," they justify scrollbars in menus so I guess we'd better get used to it.
Member since:2005-07-06
Eek! Say it isn't so! Ah well, no doubt someone will come up with a simpler alternative.
But really, what's the point of pretending that's a menu? Tabs, scrollbars, search fields??? It'd be better to have the thing appear in the middle of the screen when the button is clicked. Let it be the windowed app it's trying to be and be done with it! Meanwhile, give me back my menu!
And I agree with you about usability studies. Didn't they produce pearls like "MS Bob" and more recently, the Palm Foleo?
A turkey is a turkey, even if the marketing tells you it's a super-sized chicken...
Member since:2005-12-31
Looking at these screenshots, there are worse problems than scrollbars in menus, although I don't like them either. But just look at the number of redundant icons there!
There's "Control Center", "System Tools", "Preferences", and "Administration". That could be a single entry, or maybe two for system-wide configuration and user-specific configuration.
Then there is "Terminal", which could as well appear under "System Tools" too since it's just that - a system tool.
I'm unsure about "Desktop" - this doesn't really open another file browser on the desktop folder, right? Given that the desktop is always open anyway, that wouldn't make sense.
Then there is "Beryl Manager" and "Beryl Settings Manager" - another useless redundancy, and BTW this belongs into system settings too.
Then apply some sane grouping: "Dictionary" and "Character Map" can go into "Accessories".
And so on...
Member since:
2005-07-06
What a trainwreck. Scrollbars in a menu...good grief:
http://linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/celena/mintmenu.png