two menus for all kde.org subsites?

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:44, Neil Stevens wrote:

> Two menus are more than twice as hard to navigate as one menu.  A single
> menu allows the user to find one menu and read down the list.
>
> Two menus require the user to find both menus, decide which to read, then
> read down the list.  If the user chose wrongly, the user must read down
> the second list.

People read from left to right. The context menu is on the left.

Additionally, you _CAN NOT_ change the contents of the right menu. It always 
contains links to other sites in the family.

> www.kde.org/index has a very large number of links, so two menus were a
> compromise there.  What other page in KDE has a number of links on the
> front page that is equal to that?

That URL doesn't exist, and I don't know which one you're talking about.

> So if specific site mantainers decide that their specific title page has so
> many links that he wants to have two menus, let them populate both menus.
> Fine.   But leave that for each maintainer to decide.  Don't just go
> slapping on a whole extra menu to each page on the server.  multimedia
> barely has enough links right now for one menu.  It does not need two.

You don't seem to be familiar with what we're talking about. If you were 
familiar with it, you would know that it was not possible to change the links 
in the right menu, since it always contains links to other sites in the 
family. Therefore your argument is totally redundant and doesn't make any 
sense at all.

The right menu merely allows people to find other sites in the family, which 
makes sense for the homepage of kde.org sites.

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