Re: [Usability] What to call the Gnome Menu (was: Mac-style menubar in GNOME)

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Reed Hedges <reed interreality org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:35:42AM +0100, Joachim
> Noreiko wrote:
> > As the Mac-style menubar is likely to take some
> time,
> > it might be a good idea to look at renaming the
> "Menu
> > Bar" in the interim (or in fact, just *naming*
> it).
> > It's regularly a pain to refer to in
> documentation,
> > and it's not very clear in the Add to Panel dialog
> > either.
> > "Panel menubar" is the best suggestion so far,
> that I
> > have adopted in the User Guide, but it's not very
> > descriptive for the Add to Panel dialog.
> > I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331459
> 
> 
> I've always called it  simply the "Gnome Menu". If I
> want to refer to
> the Applications section, I say "Gnome Applications
> Menu" (And similar
> for "Gnome Desktop Menu" and "Gnome Places Menu" or
> whatever). This
> terminology should make sense for both the normal
> 3-menu layout, or the
> more compact menu applet that's just a foot.

But they are two different things, so using the same
name for both is not good.
Also, many distros replace the gnome logo, and many
users might not know what 'gnome' is.
 
> Then the menus for each application would be the
> Application Menu, or
> e.g. the Firefox Menu, Nautilus Menu, whatever.
> 
> "Bar" refers to the "physical" form that the menus
> happen to be placed
> upon, so in the case of the main Gnome menu, the
> "bar" is the panel. In
> the case of an application window, the "bar" is the
> grey (or whatever)
> actual bar the menus are on.  Cf. Tool Bar.

I think there is a problem with using the term like
that. Firefox shows a File menu, for example. So there
can't also be a Firefox menu. It's a Firefox menubar
that has several menus.


		
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