GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 85622
[doc] Update docs for GNOME, Applications and Actions menus
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:31 UTC
The following issues came out of the recent ui-review and are recommended for fixing prior to GNOME 2.0.1: Actions menu: - s/Lock Display/Lock Screen - s/Take a Screen Shot/Screenshot... Applications menu: - s/KDE menu/KDE Menu - s/Debian menu/Debian Menu GNOME menu: - s/Log out/Log Out... (there was some discussion about whether it was just a confirm dialog. With the introduction of options like 'Log Out, Reboot, Shut Down' etc.. we decided we should have the ellipses) - s/Lock screen/Lock Screen - Remove 'Panel' submenu - s/KDE menu/KDE Menu - s/Debian menu/Debian Menu - s/Take a Screen Shot/Screenshot... - 'Run Programs...' should be available from the GNOME Menu [preferably following order of actions menu] - s/Main Menu/GNOME Menu on the tooltip - Remove 'Properties' on context menu - We should be using the Menu Editing Plan [whenever this happens] so for now, let's just lock things down - We should not let the user customize the icon, let's keep this unique
Adding keywords to all ui-review bugs in one mass change, sorry for the spam. It would be very nice if the folks doing UI review stuff would be sure to add 'PATCH' to the bugs that have those. I'm (tentatively) not marking these 'high' but the release team [having gotten approval from the docs and i18n people] would like to see these in ASAP on the 2.0.1 branches, so that i18n folks can start translating at their convenience.
Even though there isn't a patch with this, it make sure it's on the radar of already done hacked on bugs.
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Fixed in CVS.
- Remove 'Properties' on context menu What is the rationale for this? Personnally whether or not "good" menu is implemented via the panel menu, having properties is just too useful. For example, a program is crashing that is launched from the menu, you then look at properties to see what the program name is so you can run it from the terminal for extra info. - We should be using the Menu Editing Plan [whenever this happens] so for now, let's just lock things down Menu editing plan?
The only thing that's been removed (I hope, as that's what we discussed in the ui-review) is the "Properties" item on the context menu for the GNOME menu itself. The only half-useful thing that Properties dialog let you do was change the icon for the GNOME menu (the Global/Main menu stuff was crack and not fully implemented). And we decided nobody would ever want to change that lovely foot icon anyway :) The Properties item for all other panel objects and menu items is still there.
reopening for docs
Just downloaded latest cvs, and properties has been obliterated for all menu items
Hmm, looks like you're right, that wasn't the intention. Any chance we can have them back, guys?
Properities option on the panel menu context menus was removed because of menu editing problems. It will almost certainly come back in the future. Not sure if this is a 2.0.1 thing [I still don't think we've got menu editing sorted out yet].
Well menu editing is supposed to be a 2.0.1 thing and the properties is fairly vital, if only so that people can debug programs from the terminal.
looks like menu editing is not going to be implemented at all (or at least not any time this side of 2.2), so point about properties is probably academic. Still not good ui IMHO (being able to see what program is being run by which menu item)
Trimming keywords, changing priority and re-titling for clarity
Updated User Guide docs to reflect these changes. However, I still see Lock Display and not Lock Screen on the Actions menu.
I have "Lock Screen" on my menu panel (cvs build from last weekend).