Re: AppMenu design feedback

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 14:41 +0100, Florian Scandella wrote:
> +1 for removing AppMenu, it's very annoying when using multiple monitors.

Agree, I don't get the point in the first place... but with my displays
it is *36 INCHES FROM THE APPLICATION WINDOW*!  Yikes.

BTW, is there a hotkey bound to the current applications AppMenu?  That
would make it somewhat less silly.

> As a temporary workaround theres a gsettings key:
> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides
> '{"Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu": <int32 0>}'

Oh, sweet!!!

> But it adds a whole second menu to programms using the AppMenu with just
> one entry (see totem).. a waste of space.

Argh!

> I think if there's need for an appmenu, the title bar would be a nice
> place to put it (like firefox on windows). I opened a bug some time ago
> about this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688105

Nice,  I've added myself to the CC of that one.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA