Re: [Usability] What is the name of this menu?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:17:32 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
> To: Gnome usability <usability gnome org>,
>      GNOME Documentation <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
> Subject: [Usability] What is the name of this menu?
>
> The menu that looks like
> " *foot* Applications Places Desktop"
>
> has no name.
> The applet is called "Menu Bar", which is ambiguous,
> and breaks style guide rules to write "menubar" in one
> word.
> Considering that this is perhaps the user's main point
> of access to GNOME, and that it's mentioned very
> frequently in docs, I think it needs a name. (There is
> also the problem of ambiguity with the Nautilus Places
> menu, and the ambiguity of the word Desktop.)
>
> I've been saying "The top panel menu" which is a bit
> wordy.

Sounds about right to me.

> I would suggest we strip the old and unused "Main
> Menu" of its name, and use it for this:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331459

Some of us don't use the double panel setup, so I'd be reluctant to reuse
that bit of terminology just yet.

> Any other ideas?

-- 
Alan H.