fine-grained apps menu

[Andrew Dorrell]

Hi Nick,

No offense but its a pretty short blog and personally I hate the idea.

- I appreciate the notion of 5 \pm 2 but navigating menu levels is a 
more significant cognitive hit. 
- The *last* group I would apply your idea to is internet.  I'd argue 
that most users want to find their favourite internet applications 
directly under "internet"  - not under some additional tier.  Personally 
I like them even more accessible than that. 
- Also I susspect many users won't get the distinction between for 
example "conectivity" and "commuication" and so will find some apps 
*harder* to locate.

If you have a lot of apps in a single menu level, spatially grouping 
them, perhaps just by adding spacers and / or different background 
colours, may be more helpful.

Thanks for reading,

Nick Shaforostoff wrote:
> Hi. I implemented my menu reorganization idea and blogged about it:
> http://shaforostoff.blogspot.com/2009/02/fine-grained-applications-menu.html
> People didn't like having only 2 subcategories in some top-level categories,
> so I'm including only non-controversional Internet category part:
> It divides Internet category into 4 subcategories - Web,
> Communication, Download, and Connectivity,
> making it easier to find an app you want.
>
> screenshot (this patch only): http://youonlylivetwice.info/menu-internet.png
> screencast (shows changes to all categories):
> http://youonlylivetwice.info/menu-finegrained.htm
>
> ok for me to commit?
>