GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 95322
The menu panel's "Task Menu" should be a seperate applet.
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:35 UTC
Description of Problem: The application and window menu on the right of the main panel cannot be added as an applet or otherwise to any other panel. It is the most usefull of the applets and it seems to be hardcoded to the main panel, requiring sifting through config files to locate even what it's called. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start Gnome 2. Look at main panel -> far right 3. Try to add an identical menu to another panel Actual Results: Nothing - feature non-existant Expected Results: Nice easy, like the rest of gnome. How often does this happen? Permanently ;)
Oh, that thing :-) I couldn't figure out what you were talking about for a minute - mainly because I've used it ... Anyway, in the code its call a "Task Menu" so we might as well call it that for the moment. Yes, it would be good to have this as an applet in its own right. Usability people: any random comments? Dave: you have a bug going on the dependancies of making the menu panel an edge panel with applets don't you? This would be another dependancy.
Thanks for clarifying this for me. I can see why all this has been done in this way - to look and feel like the mac. That's great, but we don't want the lack of control and customisation as the mac...do we? On a similar note - I do hope the Trash isn't hardcoded to be called that (like OS X), looking at the properties - it is. Oh well.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72783 ***