On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Andrew Cowie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 13:55 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> It would be great if we could improve on the current situation and >> ensure that all our applications present an appropriate set of items >> in their GMenu. > > Is there a reference application doing this right?
There are two paths available to applications - (1) replace the menu bar entirely, or (2) move some items to the app menu. For (1), the calculator [1] is a good example. For (2), I'd recommend checking out Nautilus [2]. I'm happy to give design advise on any specific examples. Just file a bug and cc me. > I ask this because Epiphany¹ has no menu, but does and a funky button > over on the right that, upon investigation, turns out to be a menu has > useful things like "add bookmark" ... but not preferences! Which, > eventually and quite by accident, I discovered was in the global GMenu > thing up top. Oh. ... Epiphany is a slightly unusual case, since it's in the process of transitioning to Web. (The gear button menu isn't in the Web mockups.) The best way to prevent those 'oh' moments is to be consistent in the placement of menu items like preferences (that item should always be in the app menu). The sooner we can get every application looking and behaving the same way, the better. Allan [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674529 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674532 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
