Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Last release we introduced the ability for applications to define a
> GMenu (or 'application menu'). This means that applications now have a
> place to locate global application (as opposed to per window) menu
> items. Some applications have already started to use a GMenu, and
> while this is great, it has also introduced some inconsistency (since
> some app menus have several items in them and some just have Quit).
> 
> It would be great if we could improve on the current situation and
> ensure that all our applications present an appropriate set of items
> in their GMenu. I've started a GNOME Goal page [1] which we can use to
> coordinate this work, if people think it's a good idea.

I'm not sure how good an idea this is given that the use of the app menu
means that the application itself will require redesign. It would only
be really useful for smaller applications with a very limited number of
menu items, without a redesign.