Hi, Though the gnome-shell is still in the development stages , just wanted to point out that the top menu at the moment has a few oddities.
1: Not all items react. - In normal view > - The name of the app-in-view is displayed but the name is non-reactive , while the rest of the elements react to user interaction. => I understand that this is the design but , it would be better if the title responds and shows some options. 2: It gets even more confusing in the "Activities overview " , when the applets in the notification area and the user item also dont respond now , but the calendar responds to user interactions. Since there is no indication of the running apps[as with the taskbar] , i usually tend to check the activities overview , before shutting down, to see if there are any apps running in other workspaces which i havent closed. But as the user-item is now non-reactive , i have to exit the overview to shutdown. =>It would be easier if the shutdown options where available even from the activities overview , so that i dont have to exit the overview to shutdown. 3: Certain items[system status items] have context menus , but others dont. We need to decide whether to allow context menus on the system status items or to add context menus on other items too. Since it is mentioned in the design guidelines that the system status icons need to appear as part of the top menu bar , they need to behave like the rest of the items too. 4: System status objects and the user-item behave different from the Calendar and the activities options. The calendar and the activities items have a neat slide action , while the rest of the items just show the drop down menu and do not have the side animation => Is it possible to make all the items in the top menu use the slide animation? 5: Sidebar option [checkmark] oddly placed inbetween two options of account information and system preferences. => Ideally, it needs to be placed between separators , above the account information option. 6: Most of the objects in the system status display the icons using the gtk_status_icon_set_from_icon_name [gpm and others too , afaik] , but network manager applet uses the gtk_icon_theme_load_icon , this causes the icon to scale up to fill the panel height and appear bigger than the rest of the icons while the rest of the applets use the icons as is. This is not a gnome-shell problem per-se , but this is because there is no proper guidelines for the system status area applets . It needs to be mentioned , in the gnome guidelines , how the applets need to use the icon , so that the applet devs use the proper icon calls. Hope these are fixable :) -- Cheers, mac_v _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
