Re: [Usability] Mac-style menubar in GNOME

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:

> On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:47 AM, Zoran Rilak wrote:
> > ...
> > I'm working on a simple panel applet that would
> provide functionality
> > similar to Mac's menu bar.  
> 
> This is *excellent* news. I warn you, though, it
> won't be "simple". :-)

Seconded.

One thing I might add to mpt's notes is:
* integration with the current panel menubar
How will it look? How do we on the one hand link the
two menus together seamlessly to avoid GUI ugliness,
yet make it visually clear which part is constant and
which part changes?
It might be worth thinking about reducing the
three-menu menubar, perhaps returning to the single
icon foot menu as a default. (For example, anytime
you're using Nautilus, you'd have two Places menus,
which currently have different contents.)


		
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