> I agree, the top bar gets filled.
> My first reaction would have been that we have much space on the right
> that we can use but after checking, some pages make use of that area
> heavily
> eg starred, feeds, tickler, home.  and i like the little overviews they
> put there, so we should'n touch that.
> 

I agree. I personally use the right side bar to quickly navigate to active
Project, so I do not specifically need a Projects link as a first level 
menu item, I'm fine with Manage->Projects

> We could maybe do a topbar with 'main categories' and 'sub items', and
> the sub-item links that are shown are dependent on the main category
> you're in.

Do you mean sub menus?

> 
> * search : personally i would just keep it simple and add the search
> form directly underneath the #minilinks block.  The icon can be re-
> added
> later if we ever have an 'advanced search' feature.

If we cleanup the menubar, there will be room for a search text field.
The lack of room was one of the arguments why people did not like
a search text box in the menu bar

> * recurring actions : recurring actions are closely related to normal
> actions, I think we need 1 action manager, and inside that we should be
> able to make it recurrent or not

Would be nice to reach that point, but until use cases are more clear
I think we will needs recurring actions (although I think we should
rename it to 'recurring patterns', but that is another topic)

> * feeds & stats: lets definitely keep the icons. these are special
> pages
> (just like advanced search)

Why the icons and not put them in a submenu? Or do you mean both?

> * starred: this is just 'home' but with a filter for the tag starred.
> fine like it is for me.

I was thinking that people need to have quick access to their starred
actions. If
this I'm wrong here, we could place Starred in a submenu

> -> So i would keep most of the icons like they are. they don't need
> much
> space anyway.

I'd like to find consistency in the menu bar if we change it. So why keep
the icons and move Contexts to a submenu? Let's rethink what needs to
be accessed quickly and what is ok to put in submenus

btw, you can try tracks with my suggestion for the main menu 
on http://github.com/lrbalt/tracks/tree/newmenu

Reinier

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