Re: Unity-Style Menu

[Reiner Jung <prefec2 web de>]

Hi Matthew

if I am not completely mistaken, this has been discussed and rejected
several times on this list.

However, if there would be a voting for such feature. I would go for
this topbar menu thing.

I for myself run Gnome3 at home and unity on my business machine. And at
the beginning they both were annoying. However, I learned to work with
them and now I like both to some degree. Some things are really neat in
GnomeShell and some are really good in Unity.

Greetz
  Reiner

BTW: App indicators are also a nice idea. And I hope the Gnome-folks
would look into it.

On 05/06/2011 04:47 PM, Matthew Planchard wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First, I'd like to say that I really like the Gnome3 shell. It was
> definitely a surprise at first, but it's gotten to be very intuitive. In
> fact, I recently installed Ubuntu Natty Narwhal to try out their new
> Unity interface, and I found it to be slow, clunky, and poorly
> integrated in comparison to Gnome3. The combination Expose/Dash feature
> is probably my favorite thing, and I just discovered that you can switch
> between windows of an open program with Alt+(key above tab), which fixes
> my long-standing annoyance that I couldn't just switch between menus of
> an open program.
> 
> My time piddling about in Unity, though, has brought an idea to mind,
> which I wanted to share with you. One of the cooler features they have
> is the integration of the menu into the top bar. It gives the user more
> screen space and recognizes that generally, no one needs to see the
> menus unless they need to. However, they put the menus into the top bar
> in a fashion whereby when the user hovers over the application title,
> all menu options appear on the top bar, sometimes replacing other useful
> information.
> 
> My idea is that since Gnome3 already has a clickable application icon on
> the top bar that opens a menu with a "close" option, why not just go
> ahead and insert the entire program menu? This would increase visible
> screen space for the users, while providing an intuitive way to access
> the program menus. In fact, when I first saw the icon along the top, I
> thought that is what it would do.
> 
> So, it's just an idea, and I cannot imagine that it has not occurred to
> you previously, but I wanted to put it out there anyway. I think it
> would be a really fantastic idea.
> 
> Thanks again for a fantastic desktop. I look forward to future updates.
> 
> Namaste.
> Matt
> 
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