Re: GNOME Goal Proposal: Port to GMenu

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Andrew Cowie
<andrew operationaldynamics com> wrote:
> Is there a reference application doing this right?
>
> 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.

The way it was designed is that things related to the application as a
whole go in the application menu, things related to the particular
window you are in go in the gear thing. I'm not sure about what you
mean exactly with "Epiphany has no menu" in any case.

>
> Presumably that's not quite what you're aiming for. Perhaps you can
> suggest a current GNOME app that *is* doing precisely what it is you
> want us all to do?

The design we have is not exactly like what it's implemented, since
there's a few things in the gear menu that should not be there. The
fact that there's a global app menu and a window specific menu is
implemented as designed, though.

Xan