Re: [Usability] Mac-style menubar in GNOME

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Sep 16, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> ...
> 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.)
> ...

Yes, I was treating it as obvious that the introduction of a real menu 
bar would require abolishing the misleadingly-named "Menu Bar". :-)

I don't think that would be much of an advantage or a disadvantage. On 
one hand, it would make things like Places harder to get to (not that 
I've ever actually *used* that menu, except to get to the 
hopefully-soon-obsolete "Search for Files"). On the other, it would 
reduce categorization problems such as the reviewer who concluded that 
Ubuntu has no help system.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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