-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Petr Tomeš wrote:
> 2006/9/14, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... >> I don't think having 4 entries would be too much for a menubar. In >> fact, I think the top panel looks quite empty now, and even more so >> on >> widescreens. Also, "Help" is a toplevel menu in every single menubar >> on the system (all applications), except the panel. > > This is one of reasons why not to do it. The another is that no > important operating system (Windows, Mac OS X) or desktop environment > (GNOME, KDE, XFCE) or Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, > Mandriva) has this "top level menu item" on panel. I think only > KDE-based desktops have help icon on main panel. > ... I think your conclusion is right, but your premise is wrong. Both substantial desktop operating systems (Windows and Mac OS X) *do* have "Help" at the top level of their system menus: Windows in the Start menu, and Mac OS X in the global menu bar. Since Ubuntu has neither a Start-menu-like system menu by default, nor a global menu bar, there would be two "Help" menus on the screen most of the time, which would be a bit confusing. On the other hand, that there is no indication of which things on the panel are buttons and which are menus is already confusing. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFCRNW6PUxNfU6ecoRApfQAKC5fXBxVfUWNWvktHlZnAEN5EehHACfaV2l 3CQ/SLJNkndqQ3fKFvWflt4= =pI5F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
