On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Xan Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Andrew Cowie > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there a reference application doing this right? >> >> 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. > > The way it was designed is that things related to the application as a > whole go in the application menu, things related to the particular > window you are in go in the gear thing. I'm not sure about what you > mean exactly with "Epiphany has no menu" in any case. > >> >> Presumably that's not quite what you're aiming for. Perhaps you can >> suggest a current GNOME app that *is* doing precisely what it is you >> want us all to do? > > The design we have is not exactly like what it's implemented, since > there's a few things in the gear menu that should not be there. The > fact that there's a global app menu and a window specific menu is > implemented as designed, though. > >
I think having two different "super" menus could be confusing, the distinction between application and window is not something people think about. An example of how this can be a problem is the "View as List/Grid" menu items in Documents. These exact same options exist in Nautilus, but they would live in the menubar or a super menu instead of the appmenu. Per-window/per-app makes sense from a technical perspective but it's not a natural to users. -- Evandro _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
