Hi,
Here is a proposal which occurs to me recently.
We all know our horizontal menu (EtoileWildMenus) does not work well,
but probably due to the internal design of GNUstep menu system.
And personally, I am not a big fan horizontal menu.
But menu bar also serves a place to put the small icons for various functions.
Therefore, I suggest to change the EtoileMenuServer to be a shorter bar
only for such icons and use vertical menu as what GNUstep offers.
1. vertical menu + icon bar = menubar
2. vertical menu work better in the near future
3. there is no loss of functionality, except change of habit
4. icon bar adapt the same interface as EtoileMenuServer for menulet.
When we have a better EtoileWildMenus, everything will still work.
5. icon bar can be put in different position as dock.
6. Dock (AZDock) is too big for such small icons.
Use dock for such functionality is a waste of space.
And dock represents applications, not information.
It may look like what I saw in BeOS that their main
dock/menu/icon are on the top-right corner.
The implementation is also simple.
So it is just a matter of agreement.
Comment ?
Yen-Ju
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