Hi Matthew if I am not completely mistaken, this has been discussed and rejected several times on this list.
However, if there would be a voting for such feature. I would go for this topbar menu thing. I for myself run Gnome3 at home and unity on my business machine. And at the beginning they both were annoying. However, I learned to work with them and now I like both to some degree. Some things are really neat in GnomeShell and some are really good in Unity. Greetz Reiner BTW: App indicators are also a nice idea. And I hope the Gnome-folks would look into it. On 05/06/2011 04:47 PM, Matthew Planchard wrote: > Hi All, > > First, I'd like to say that I really like the Gnome3 shell. It was > definitely a surprise at first, but it's gotten to be very intuitive. In > fact, I recently installed Ubuntu Natty Narwhal to try out their new > Unity interface, and I found it to be slow, clunky, and poorly > integrated in comparison to Gnome3. The combination Expose/Dash feature > is probably my favorite thing, and I just discovered that you can switch > between windows of an open program with Alt+(key above tab), which fixes > my long-standing annoyance that I couldn't just switch between menus of > an open program. > > My time piddling about in Unity, though, has brought an idea to mind, > which I wanted to share with you. One of the cooler features they have > is the integration of the menu into the top bar. It gives the user more > screen space and recognizes that generally, no one needs to see the > menus unless they need to. However, they put the menus into the top bar > in a fashion whereby when the user hovers over the application title, > all menu options appear on the top bar, sometimes replacing other useful > information. > > My idea is that since Gnome3 already has a clickable application icon on > the top bar that opens a menu with a "close" option, why not just go > ahead and insert the entire program menu? This would increase visible > screen space for the users, while providing an intuitive way to access > the program menus. In fact, when I first saw the icon along the top, I > thought that is what it would do. > > So, it's just an idea, and I cannot imagine that it has not occurred to > you previously, but I wanted to put it out there anyway. I think it > would be a really fantastic idea. > > Thanks again for a fantastic desktop. I look forward to future updates. > > Namaste. > Matt > > -- > Take a few minutes just to sit and breathe. > The world will wait for you. > > My Google Profile <http://www.google.com/profiles/msplanchard> > Follow me on Twitter! <http://twitter.com/#!/coda1229> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
