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

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:12:27 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
> > To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> > Cc: Gnome usability <usability gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] What is the name of this
> menu?
> >
> >
> > --- Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > By 'us', do you mean 'some distros', or 'some
> > hard-core geeks who alter the default so their
> system
> > looks like the old days'?
> 
> So far I just mean me.  (I've been using a single
> main menu setup for
> about a decade due to a combination of Windows 95
> and others so I'm
> understandably reluctant to change.)  I try but it
> is hard to know what
> all distributions do, I'm not sure if any
> distributions override the
> current Gnome defaults.  IIRC there is a "main menu
> applet" which is
> different from and more extensive than the
> foot+Applications menu, which
> might still need the term you want to use.

Yes, there is. And:

> I would suggest we strip the old and unused
> "Main Menu" of its name, and use it for this.




		
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