Re: Proposal: gnome-main-menu for inclusion in GNOME 2.18

["Corey Burger" <corey burger gmail com>]

On 10/20/06, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 20:25 +0200, Martin Ejdestig wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:11 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > The menu thing looks like the Mac menu, but doesn't
> > > behave anything like the real thing does on Mac OS.
> >
> > And the slab thing looks like Windows' start menu but doesn't behave
> > anything like the "real thing" on Windows. Or did I miss something? :)
>
> It matches the behavior more closely than the menu bar applet does.
>
> > (FWIW, I don't think it matters much how much something might or might
> > not look like something else on some other system...)
>
> It depends on where the difference is. The two main types of
> differentiation here are:
>
> 1) It's different enough to be better.
>
> 2) It's just different enough to be confusing.
>
> The slab falls into category 1, while the menu bar falls into category 2
> here. The default panel layout in GNOME looks like some inane mix of Mac
> OS and Windows, and has been a point of confusion for many people
> switching over.

I am going to have to disagree with you. The primary issue I have seen
is with where the menu is (the upper right) rather than how the menu
looks.

Corey