On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:18 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
I haven't seen an app menu (gmenu) discussion in quite some time, which is a bit surprising as more apps add them. 3.10 will be the fourth release featuring app menus, and by now most GNOME applications have one. But the only information on the GNOME wiki seems to have been written for GNOME 3.4, and there seem to be some issues and inconsistencies with the implementation throughout the project.
I've been using GNOME all that time and I'd never noticed them. This is the one in the top panel which, with focus-follows-mouse, means I have to *quickly* move my mouse to the top of the screen from the tiny empathy buddies window — without it resting for a moment over any other window, otherwise *that* application's menu ends up in the panel by the time I get there? That's great fun with a trackpad and a large screen, where it might take two strokes of the finger to get from one corner of the screen to the other. And only *then* can I find the 'add contact' option, that I expected to find *in* the empathy application over there about 25 inches away at the bottom right corner of my screen? I actually filed a bug because I couldn't *find* the 'add contact' option. And then didn't understand what I was being told, when I was told it was in the 'GNOME Shell context menu'. It had to be explained to me in graphic detail. A stunningly unhelpful development, it seems to me. I would strongly resist the suggestion that Evolution should gain this monstrosity, especially if it's unconditional. -- dwmw2
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