GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 74245
Panel shortcut menu suggestions
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The first three items on the panel shortcut menu are: Add to Panel > Create Panel > Remove this Panel --- . . . Suggest this should be changed to: Add to this Panel > New Panel > --- Remove this Panel --- . . . Rationale: - if we're going to use the word "this", we need to use it consistently on all menu items that use it. - "New <object>" is the standard term in applications etc. for creating a new instance of something, so it seems like the more consistent term to use here. Might also consider swapping New and Remove items, so all the "Add" and "Remove" are grouped together, less convinced about that though. Also, none of the items currently have accelerator keys-- all the static ones should have, at least, even if we can't assign sensible ones to the dynamic "Add to Panel" submenu items.
For completeness, here's what the whole menu could look like, as I noticed another couple of things further down that could do with tweaking as well, and forgot that I'd said in another bug report that "Delete Panel" is probably more accurate...: _Add to Panel > _New Panel > --- _Delete Panel --- _Global Preferences (don't really like 'global' though) _Edit Menus... --- Panel _Help _About Panel -- A_bout GNOME
Two more things about this menu: - Suggest that "Add to Panel->Swallowed App..." should be relabelled "Add to Panel->Swallowed Application...". Shouldn't generally use abbreviations in menu labels. - All items need to be in title caps. Items currently affected: Launcher from menu, Logout button, Lock button, Swallowed app(lication), and Status dock. (And a couple of others that I've suggested renaming to something else above anyway.)
adding myself to cc list Be sure to let me know when you make this change, and either change this bug to "fix the docs" or some such wording, or file a new bug to update the docs to match.
More up-to-date suggestion and patch in #85619 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85619 ***