On 13 Mar 2006, at 09:17, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
The menu that looks like " *foot* Applications Places Desktop" has no name. The applet is called "Menu Bar", which is ambiguous, and breaks style guide rules to write "menubar" in one word.
The "panel menubar" maybe? Possibly a bit similar to the "main menu", but in what context do you need to refer to the whole thing by name anyway? Wouldn't you normally refer to its individual menus, i.e. "Applications menu", "Places menu" or "Desktop menu"? (Possibly prefixed by "panel" for disambiguation, e.g. the "panel Places menu" as opposed to the "file manager Places menu"?)
Considering that this is perhaps the user's main point of access to GNOME
I'm not sure if it would be wise to rely on that, as it's distro- dependent... JDS still ships without a menubar applet turned on by default, for example.
I've been saying "The top panel menu" which is a bit wordy.
I'm not sure that's a good name anyway; what happens if I put it on my bottom panel instead? :)
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