GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163501
Synchronize the main menu layout with new menu bar layout
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:49 UTC
The main menu layout should probably be synchronized with the new menu layout in HEAD. Is there any proposition for this?
Sorry for the spam. Mass-marking some bugs to the 2.10.x milestone. Filter on "VINCENT WANTS THIS FOR 2.10" to ignore.
Bug #98883: Applications should NOT be in a submenu I agree.
*** Bug 165125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 165125 noticed the absence of "Preferences" and "Administration" in the foot menu.
*** Bug 165670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a really serious bug. No access to preferences is pretty annoying.
Ok, wow this is late. Here is what I was thinking for this menu. All the apps are listed inline in the menu like referenced from Bug #98883 Places is a submenu with the normal places items. Desktop is a submenu with the normal items minus lock and logout. --------------- | Accessories | | Games | | .... | |-------------| |Places => | |Desktop => | |-------------| | Lock | | Log Out | ---------------
I'll try to work on this this week-end...
It would definitely be useful if the Application Launcher applets could link into those new menus. This would mean that they would need to be assigned an icon to differentiate them from other application launchers.
Bryan: do you have a proposition for icons for Places and Desktop?
Created attachment 37608 [details] [review] Patch
Created attachment 37609 [details] Screenshot
The patch is big, but it mainly involves moving a lot of code to a new file. I'll need to update POTFILES.in too Still need propositions for the icons :-)
I think the Desktop icon should be the same icon used in Show Desktop applet. Places might be able to use a Computer icon.
Do we really need a menu for the desktop? It's not hard to see the desktop, especially if there's a Show Desktop applet on the panel. I think making Show Desktop applet default on the panel would be better than having a Desktop submenu.
It's probably going to look a little redundant, but I'd say use a default folder icon for Places and agree that using the same icon for the show desktop applet for the Desktop menu.
Keith: the Desktop menu item is the same as in the menu bar. It's Desktop as in "Desktop Environment" (not as in "Desktop Folder").
Created attachment 37616 [details] Updated screenshot
Created attachment 37617 [details] [review] Updated patch
Bryan: is it okay to ask for UI breakage now or is there any other things to change?
*** Bug 98883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"Run Application" is missing from the menu.
Created attachment 37619 [details] Screenshot with "Run application" I'm not sure where the item should go... Here's a first test.
Created attachment 37620 [details] Second test
Created attachment 37621 [details] [review] Patch with "Run application" I like the first version better, so here's the patch :-)
It's in, with release team approval.
Why does the Desktop entry have the same icon as the Desktop entry in the file chooser and the show desktop applet? I believe that this will cause user confusion. Comments 14 and 15 suggest that this will happen. Keith suggested the icon before he discovered that the menu would not contain the items from the user's desktop. If one of the icon guys can draw you a good icon for it, that would be fine. I doubt that they would be able to because the kind of desktop being refered to has no graphical representation. The best match would probably be the foot icon, but having a foot icon on the foot menu sounds like a bad idea.
Maybe using the word "Desktop" for the original menu wasn't such a good idea. Even in comment 17 Vincent calls it a "Desktop Environment", with the operative word being "Environment". Maybe that's how the entry should be called. Or "System" or something.