Star The State of the Global Menubar in GNOME
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Feb 2009 23:15 UTC
Gnome A very, very long time ago I personally advocated the inclusion of a certain feature into GNOME. We set up a poll at OSNews, which resulted in a very, very resounding "yes!" from the OSNews community - many of which are GNOME users. The feature in question was the global application menubar, which allowed the GNOME desktop to have a menu bar atop the screen similar to that of Mac OS X. The poll is long gone, the debate thread in the Bugzilla has died out, and no decision has yet been made. I wanted to know where this feature stands, and how much the developers have improved it, and I was in for a surprise.
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RE[4]: No point
by raver31 on Sat 14th Feb 2009 11:33 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: No point"
raver31
Member since:
2005-07-06

I know lol, but like I said, lack of sleep combined with getting the wrong idea of the screenshots.....

Anyway, I now know what you are all on about, and I actually disagree.

I prefer the simple clean menus in Gnome, and if I need to stick stuff in there, I will use Alacarte.

I don't want other people deciding what goes where in my menus.

KDE menus become a mess after a while.

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RE[5]: No point
by Thom_Holwerda on Sat 14th Feb 2009 11:56 in reply to "RE[4]: No point"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

I don't want other people deciding what goes where in my menus.


What part of "optional GNOME panel applet" don't you understand?

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RE[5]: No point
by WereCatf on Sat 14th Feb 2009 12:47 in reply to "RE[4]: No point"
WereCatf Member since:
2006-02-15

Anyway, I now know what you are all on about, and I actually disagree.

I prefer the simple clean menus in Gnome, and if I need to stick stuff in there, I will use Alacarte.

I don't want other people deciding what goes where in my menus.

Sorry, you're still talking about the wrong thing ;) We are talking about the menus in every application, like "File", "Edit", "Bookmarks" etc. Not the menu with launchers for your favorites. We also aren't talking about editing the contents of those menus, we are talking about where the menu should be visible; inside the application window, or on the GNOME panel.

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