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+ <B>Michael Scherer</B>
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+<PRE>Le jeudi 24 f&#233;vrier 2011 &#224; 20:30 +0200, Anssi Hannula a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> On 24.02.2011 18:57, Tux99 wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:27
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Le jeudi 24 f&#233;vrier 2011 &#224; 10:06 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; I don't think so. Several Mandriva releases ago, there was no such
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;More&quot;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; entry, but real sub-categories in the menu. Then it changed for
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; what we have
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; now, but that wasn't a change in the .desktop files, rather a menu
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; configuration. I guess that was a decision meant to bring
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;simplicity&quot;,
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Yes, and that's a choice that can be backed by several studies on the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; subject, the working memory have been estimated to be 7 chunks of
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; information ( between 5 and 9 is a wildly accepted range ). I remember
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; having seen a studie saying that it was less than this, but I cannot
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; find it ( and it was on slashdot, so this may have been wrong ).
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; So presenting only ~7 chunks of information ( ie ~7 items in menu ) is
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; better according to the current cognitive model used, such as this one
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; :
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_information_processor_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_information_processor_model</A>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Eh, isn't that a reason to switch *back* to the two-level system, not to
+</I>&gt;<i> keep the current system?
+</I>
+I do not think so. What chunk of informations do you take in account ?
+
+&gt;<i> I have about 15-30 entries in everyone of Internet, Office, Audio/Video,
+</I>&gt;<i> Tools, Tools-&gt;System submenus.
+</I>
+By submenu, you mean the &quot;more&quot; submenu ? I fail to understand what do
+you have exactly, can you provides a screenshot ?
+
+&gt;<i> With a two-level system it would be considerably less and closer to the
+</I>&gt;<i> ~7 you mention.
+</I>
+Depend, what is the process that you are wanting to improve ?
+( and closer is not good enough, even if 15 is nearer to 7 than 20,
+that's still too much and a different process is used ( according to
+studies ))
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+Michael Scherer
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