On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Federico Mena Quintero <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 10:52 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > >> - I have noticed there is an Apps menu which you can use to browse all >> installed apps, but there isn't a similar Places menu where you can >> browse your favourited folders, external volumes and recently used >> files. Wouldn't such a menu make sense? > > This is happening in the "zeitgeist" branch. It will have a journal of > the things you have done over time - files edited, web sites visited, > etc. > >> - After working for some time with Ubuntu's Unity, there was one thing >> I really liked: having the current window's menubar integrated in the >> top panel. What is the opinion of the Gnome team regarding this? > > This is technically difficult. Unity's top menubar works by patching > GTK+ so that it will send the text labels for menu items over D-Bus, to > a process that administers the menu. This doesn't work for every app, > especially for those that don't use "plain" menus but instead tweak them > in one way or another.
They also patch Qt, OpenOffice and Firefox because they don't use raw GTK+. Not quite an option for every distribution. > The top menubar is interesting, but so far no one has made an > implementation that "just works" - we'll very likely have to rethink the > way menus work in GTK+ for that to be universal. > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
