On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which
> is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth
> release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME applications have
> one. But the only information on the GNOME wiki seems to have been
> written for GNOME 3.4, and there seem to be some issues and
> inconsistencies with the implementation throughout the project.

I've been using GNOME all that time and I'd never noticed them.

This is the one in the top panel which, with focus-follows-mouse, means
I have to *quickly* move my mouse to the top of the screen from the tiny
empathy buddies window — without it resting for a moment over any other
window, otherwise *that* application's menu ends up in the panel by the
time I get there? That's great fun with a trackpad and a large screen,
where it might take two strokes of the finger to get from one corner of
the screen to the other.

And only *then* can I find the 'add contact' option, that I expected to
find *in* the empathy application over there about 25 inches away at the
bottom right corner of my screen?

I actually filed a bug because I couldn't *find* the 'add contact'
option. And then didn't understand what I was being told, when I was
told it was in the 'GNOME Shell context menu'. It had to be explained to
me in graphic detail.

A stunningly unhelpful development, it seems to me. I would strongly
resist the suggestion that Evolution should gain this monstrosity,
especially if it's unconditional.

-- 
dwmw2

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