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

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:17 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 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

Looking at context, I think you're right - thanks for the catch. My
answer is almost the same, though - I never use that at all, and I agree
with you and John that it seems completely useless. It's always felt to
me like something that was put in because no-one could think of anything
much better to go there. =)

In An Ideal World it could maybe replace menu bars in apps entirely, a
bit like the 'Office' button in recent MS Office releases, but I don't
see that happening any time this millennium.
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