Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andrew Cowie
<andrew operationaldynamics com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is there a reference application doing this right?

There are two paths available to applications - (1) replace the menu
bar entirely, or (2) move some items to the app menu. For (1), the
calculator [1] is a good example. For (2), I'd recommend checking out
Nautilus [2].

I'm happy to give design advise on any specific examples. Just file a
bug and cc me.

> I ask this because Epiphany¹ has no menu, but does and a funky button
> over on the right that, upon investigation, turns out to be a menu has
> useful things like "add bookmark" ... but not preferences! Which,
> eventually and quite by accident, I discovered was in the global GMenu
> thing up top. Oh.
...

Epiphany is a slightly unusual case, since it's in the process of
transitioning to Web. (The gear button menu isn't in the Web mockups.)

The best way to prevent those 'oh' moments is to be consistent in the
placement of menu items like preferences (that item should always be
in the app menu).  The sooner we can get every application looking and
behaving the same way, the better.

Allan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674529
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674532