This is a copy from here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Feature_Wishlist/Misc#Enhancements_to_the_new_GNOME_main_menu_.28SLAB.29

Please feel free to delete it if you regard the openSUSE-Wiki a better place for it. In that case I apologzie for the mis-use of the bug-reporting system.

Here is the enhancement request:

The new gnome main menu in SLED 10 makes typical computer usage much easier; I hope to see it in SUSE 10.2 and I'd like to suggest two enhancements for improving task-oriented usage.

I suggest to add user-definable lists of applications and folders in addition to the 'favorite' and 'recently' used list-views. A user could create task- or project-oriented lists here - like for example 'website creation workflow' or 'the Michigan building site project' (including all apps used for that project and folders where the relevant data is stored, perhaps even contacts). Users could effectively tailor much more efficient workspaces for themselves. The option to delete these workspaces via right-mouse-button-click would have to be added as well as perhaps a reminder to delete unused list-views.

This suggestion is somewhat reminiscent of the 'desktop tabs/workspaces' idea for KDE 4. 


Also, if the 'favorite applications' would be ignored when listing 'recently used applications' the 'recently used applications' would become much more useful Once a user has started a non-favorite application from the application browser it appears in the list of 'recently used applications'. But it disappears from that list again too quickly in the course of normal use.