Re: panel autohide

[<bordoley msu edu>]

Honestly, I don't see macos style global menus ever being integrated into
gnome as they violate the ui guidlines we have set up. I guess you could email
desktop-devel, but I wouldn't count on this being added anytime soon.

dave

Ps. I really don't think gnome should blantantly copy either windows or macos.
MacOS does some things very right (specifically dialog button orders are
great, putting the panel on the top of the screen) but personally I hate the
macOS global menu. I think it's a bad ui to have the menu bar constantly
changing based on what app your using.



Michele Campeotto <ml micampe it> said:

> Hello, this is my first post to the list :o)
> 
> > > Menu panel is very broken and can't really be configured. Right now the
> > > gnome ui team is considering just removing it from gnome 2.2 and
> > > replacing it with functionally equivalent applets.
> 
>   I'm really looking toward this change, I always wanted to be able to
> configure the menus shown in the menu panel (which is the only one I
> use).
> 
>   Another thing I'd like to have are MacOS-lice global menus, there
> already is a patch to GNOME 1.4 and a Sawfish module to get them, but it
> is a little broken wrt Bonobo apps (Evo, for example).
>   Is somebody considering having them in GNOME 2.x?
> 
>   http://www.carcosa.net/jason/software/gnome-globalmenu/
> 
> > You know, I just assumed that was by design - I didn't know it was
> > broken! But it'd be great to be able to get the drop-down tasklist (with
> > or without the clock) as a regular old applet.
> 
>   http://www.carcosa.net/jason/software/applets/finder.html
> 
> 
>   P.S: I'm not in any way associated with Jason, and I'm not promoting
> his website, I just happen to have met him at t.o and to like his work
> ;o)
> 
> -- 
>   -- Michele - www.micampe.it
> 
> For every winner, there are dozens of losers.
> Odds are you're one of them.
> 
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