Re: Status for the release

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:29 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:55 +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > > It certainly makes a lot more sense to have this in the properties page.
> > > In fact thats where i went looking for it.
> > 
> > We alreay have context-specific menu entries: fullscreen, properties.
> > To me "force shutdown" is not a "under the hood" action or a property,
> > rather something that should be available immediately when using a
> > Box, somewhere close to the topbar. But I'll let designer sort out
> > this issue, as I don't have stronger arguments.
> 
> I don't have an opinion as to how "under the hood" the action is, but
> the app menu just doesn't seem to be made for actions that affect i.e.
> whats currently selected in one of the apps windows, but rather toplevel
> things like: About, help, open new window, quit app, perferences.
> 
> However, I see that in this mockup:
> https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/boxes-menu.png
> the "properties" menu item is there, which seems to be a similar kind of
> context-sensitive operation as "force shutdown", so I'm also not sure
> what the deal is.
> 
> So, whats the right place? App menu, toolbar, or propertied page. I
> guess we need to designers to fight it out!

I asked jimmac, and here is the new mockup:
https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/boxes/boxes-properties.png