Terminology (was: Re: Some small ideas for the Shell Panel and Overview)

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:59 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: 
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:45 +0300, John Stowers wrote:
> 
> > In my use of the shell thus far I have *never* used the application
> > menu. Has anyone?
> 
> once, when I wanted to test gnome-games and couldn't remember the name
> of anything in it. Otherwise, no, I just search.

By "application menu", I think John meant the item beside the Activities
button:  the name of the focused app, which when clicked, brings up a
menu with a single "Quit $application" item.

There's a lot of terminology in gnome-shell these days, which can get
confusing.  I've started a page to document this, with pointers to the
relevant source code:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Terminology

  Federico