Re: Menus and GNOME games

[Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>]

The "cog menu" is a right aligned button in the toolbar that drops
down a menu of infrequently used options (frequently used options are
in the toolbar or with the content being shown).  Chrome was first to
do it I think, but it seems to be a popular meme.

Does anyone have a link to the GMenu plans?

On 31 October 2011 13:06, Thomas H.P. Andersen <phomes gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you explain a bit what a cog menu is?
>
> Touch friendliness is an issue but maybe we need to address that more
> holistically?
>
> I agree with Jason that we should wait and see what the GMenu work brings.
>
> - thomas
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 14:52, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
>> OK, I promise this is the last one.
>>
>> What do people think about the future of menus in GNOME Games?  I
>> propose dropping them for some reasons:
>> - They're not touch friendly
>> - We don't have a lot of entries in them, so they're not too useful
>> (compared to other programs)
>> - They waste space on the windows / add visual clutter
>> - In Unity, the menus are as good as useless.  We can ignore this one
>> if we're only targeting GNOME Shell.  No flames about Unity versus
>> GNOME Shell please. :)
>>
>> If we drop them, what do we replace them with?  I think something like
>> the "cog menu", like Chrome.  The Elementary project
>> (http://elementaryos.org/) has been doing this well, and has some
>> libraries that make this easy (we could copy over to
>> libgames-support).
>>
>> I propose we discuss this here and then we find the GNOME design team
>> and run the proposal past them. (It's a shame they don't use a list.
>> Please CC anyone you know with design experience who might be
>> interested in joining the discussion here).
>>
>> I've been waiting for a modern HIG to materialize but it's not
>> happening, so let's start breaking new ground in the games.  We have a
>> nice history of doing that.
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