Re: Menus and GNOME games

["Thomas H.P. Andersen" <phomes gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 19:38, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

Not to the plans, no. But I keep an eye on the branches in glib and gtk.

> 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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>>
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