What's supposed to replace menus?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 01:03:10PM +0100, Patrick Asselman wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:51:55 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:40:19AM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> >>Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is using some customized version of the panel on the left, or else
> >>> clicking on the "Dash" button and then typing at least part of the
> >>> program name supposed to replace familiar menus like
> >>"Applications",
> >>> "Places", and "System"?
> >>
> >>Yep. The thinking is that it's quicker and easier to hit the Windows
> >>key then type a few characters and hit enter than to navigate menus.
> >>Opinions differ but I definitely find it faster and easier.
> >>
> >Rather like the command line in fact!  :-)
> >
> >--
> >Chris Green
> 
> It's only quicker if you already know what the applications are
> called, i.e. if you use them a lot. Application names often have no
> relationship whatsoever with the task at hand. So you still need a
> menu structure for people who are unfamiliar with the application
> names. (Why do you think the Application Launcher was added to OSX
> recently, even though Spotlight works fine?).
> 
I'm all for having menus (I use xubuntu so still have them).

I was rather pointing to the fact that the way Unity works seems to be
tending back towards the command line.

I do use the command line a lot and, when I can't remember/find the name
of a command I use "man -k" to help.

-- 
Chris Green