Re: [Usability] Mac-style menubar in GNOME

["Daniel Borgmann" <daniel borgmann gmail com>]

On 9/16/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
> One thing I might add to mpt's notes is:
> * integration with the current panel menubar
> How will it look? How do we on the one hand link the
> two menus together seamlessly to avoid GUI ugliness,
> yet make it visually clear which part is constant and
> which part changes?
> It might be worth thinking about reducing the
> three-menu menubar, perhaps returning to the single
> icon foot menu as a default. (For example, anytime
> you're using Nautilus, you'd have two Places menus,
> which currently have different contents.)

Or two modes for the menu bar, one which looks like the current one
(and keeps application menus in their own windows) and one which
swallows the application menus and collapses the desktop menu into a
single foot menu. But the real challenge clearly is to implement the
menu swallowing in a portable way. Once that's available, we can still
think about presentation details...

Daniel