GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98883
Applications should NOT be in a submenu
Last modified: 2005-02-17 20:21:49 UTC
Applications should not be in a submenu of the "foot menu". 99% of the use of the foot panel is to access applications, so I should not be force to make extraneous movement and click everytime I use it.. I had suggested bringing back the old configurable behavior in #gnome, but I was told "its a bug". So here is the bug report.. Btw I use gnome 2.0, so I dont know if that already fixed in 2.1. There should be a little line under where the applications is now and then the applications themselves...
It's the same in GNOME 2.1.2. I think that Applications is a submenu here because if it's not, there will be too many items in the menu. But maybe there's a better solution to this problem. CC'ing usability people because they have a lot of plans for the menus :)
usability guys: could one of you handle closing as a dup or WONTFIX or whatever this bug. I've completely lost track of all the various menu re-org bugs. Dave, I know you're handling this mostly. Thanks.
This is for "Gnome Menu" or foot menu applet. While I personally think we should discourage use of it, I think that the reporter has a point and that the various appliction folders should not be in a subfolder. This would ber similar to the KDE kmenu on their panel and i believe is the default in redhat 8 as well for gnome. This is slightly different from that traditional windows start menu which is more like the current gnome foot menu. I'm working from memory here since I don't have a copy of gnome handy but the general layout should be something like ------------------------ | Accessories => | | Desktop Preferences => | | Internet => | | etc. | |------------------------| |Run... | | other stuff... | |________________________| | | | G | Panel Space----------------------------------------- |_____|
We should probably also take a look at how RH8.0 and Ximian etc. have decided to customise this menu in their 2.x distros, to see if there's any commonality we should draw on for the community default. (I don't believe Sun's going to customize it for their initial release, but it probably will in future).
*** Bug 105399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't see the Foot menu should be discouraged. I'm not a great fan of the top panel (too narrow), and don't want to have two panels on my desktop. I reported the bug which was marked as a dup of this, and I believe the menu layout I outlined is rather sensible (and it very similar to the Ximian GNOME 1 layout)
Redhat has done this since it has had Gnome 2.x - I'm not sure about Ximain, they may not have changed it because they don't use the foor menu. It would be great to get this in to 2.4 - I can't really see any reason not to: It provides consistency with the menu panel, makes applications easier to get to, and only makes the menu a few items longer.
I think main menu layout should be customisable, like in Gnome 1.4 Then everyone would be happy, as for some users it's easier, when Applications are in a submenu while others (for example me) think, that Applications shouldn't be in a submenu. See bug# 106394 for more info.
I also would like to see customisable main menu, like in Gnome 1.4 Currently I have KDE menu in my Gnome menu, but I never use this menu. Why I can't remove this now ?
Has any progress been made on that front ? If there is a way to customize this easily, that is without having to understand half a dozen different XML formats..
Olivier: see bug #163501 ;-)
I think this bug is fixed now right Vincent? Since we have the layout done in bug 163501
Well... Let's mark it as a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163501 ***