Re: [evince] the menu bar is gone

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco gmail com>
> Para: Juanjo Marin <juanj marin juntadeandalucia es>
> CC: evince-list gnome org
> Enviado: Miércoles 2 de octubre de 2013 16:34
> Asunto: Re: [evince] the menu bar is gone
>
> Hello Juanjo,
>
> 2-10-2013, 14:49 (+0200); Juanjo Marin escriu:
> >  The AppMenu mentioned is not the old style menu bar.  The AppMenu is an
> >  application drop-down menu on the top GNOME Shell bar. This menu is for
> >  actions that affect the entire application, not for specific windows of
> >  the application. I think that the AppMenu (one with the Help option) is
> >  shown in your Evince bar because you are not using GNOME.
> >
> >  Quite possible the menu buttons you have are:
> >  1) AppMenu
> >  2) View Options
> >  3) Document Options
> >
> >  apart from the Search button
>
> I see. I have no AppMenu at all. I have a search button, a spanner button
> and a sun button. The last two buttons activate menus like the ones that
> there used to be on the menu bar. The help option is nowhere to be seen.

I'll take a look when I have some free time to check what is going on other desktop.

> >  AFAIK, there is no plan to modificate the toolbar. There is a related
> >  open bug about this (#692969), but this depends of the resources
> >  avalaible (Evince devs are volunteers) and if the the maintainer finds
> >  an acceptable design for this.
>
> OK. I have to say that I fail to see the point of this redesign. I've been
> using it for a while and I'd much prefer it if there was an option to put
> the menus back on the menu bar.

The main purpose of this redesign is coherence with the GNOME desktop.

Cheers,

   -- Juanjo Marin