FC4->FC5 upgrade options -- and GUIs

[Jim Cornette]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 11:09 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> I balked yesterday when the guy asked...how do I logout?  ;-)
> 
> I just couldn't understand that, unless there's some visual problems
> involved.  There's only three menus (by default) with Gnome, and "Log
> out" is the last item on the last menu, it's not even on a sub-menu that
> you'd have to go hunting for.  It's not hard to find, at all.
> 
> It makes you wonder whether some people put any effort into anything, at
> all; or have any common sense...
> 

For a time there was not shutdown option provided on the system menu in 
FC5 test. It was tried to assume that if a computer could hibernate or 
suspend, the suspend choice would show and the shutdown choice would not 
be available in the menu.
It is not about user common sense as much as it is about how the menu 
structures are setup. Another item is when the designer assumes what the 
end use wants to do.

Also with Gnome at least, the menus are always changing. For instance, 
someone could not find the terminal which used to be under application > 
System Tools. A common, predictable location you say! Well, it is now 
under Applications > Accessories for FC5.

no more Desktop menu, it is now System also.

Jim