Since people would like to get rid of the distrobution specific menu and all that. I thought that perhaps it's worth looking at the layout of the entire GNOME menus. Here are some quick thoughts (empty lines are trying to be separators): GNOME |- Web Browser (%s) eg. Epiphany/Galeon |- Email (%s) eg. Evolution | |- Recent Applications | |- | |- | | | |- More Applications -> opens applications:// |- Recent Documents | |- | |- | | | |- More Documents -> opens home:// |- GNOME Preferences -> opens preferences:// | |- Browse -> opens computer:// |- Search |- More Actions | |- Run Application... | |- Take Screenshot | |- Help | |- Lock Screen |- Logout from GNOME Applications (this menu would be optional) |- Accessibility |- Accessories (could this be renamed?) |- Games |- Graphics |- Internet |- Music/Video |- Office |- Programming What do I like about this? Web browsing and email are at the top of the dropdown (this entire menu should be turned upside down if are menus are on the bottom). Recent applications and documents follow with obvious ways to find more applications and documents. I don't know if we currently have support for recent applications, but perhaps this could be added to gnome-session. We also present the preferences in a single window which is more consistant with the Windows Control Panel/MacOSX System Prefs, and seems to be more sensible. Following on from that are actions, the two common ones, Browse and Search are in the menu, all other actions are in a submenu, we could add a way to register actions such as "Speak" or "Connect to Server". Finally, help and Lock Screen/ Logout. These options should be as far away from the initial mouse click as possible, to reduce likely hood of selecting them accidently. Only 11 items in the menu. Much more task orientated "these are things I'll want to do in GNOME". Then we have an applications menu. We could probably make it optional. This would look much similar to the applications menu we have now, just it would only feature applications. No preferences, no browsing etc. This menu would simply be the applications menu we have now. Perhaps rename a few things to better names. Comments/ideas are welcome. --d -- http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/ PGP Fingerprint <http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/pgp> 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA
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