On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Independently from whether this is a good idea or not, this is nothing > a window manager can handle - in general, we can't even tell whether a > window actually has a menubar(*) in the first place, and even if we > could, we still didn't have any way to make the application pop up the > correct menu. > > So this would have to be implemented either at toolkit level or in the > applications themselves - therefore the gtk-devel and desktop-devel > mailing lists are more appropriate for this discussion. Makes sense. I will bring up the idea there. Thanks. > Also F9 to view/hide sidebars is pretty common for GNOME applications, > and GTK+ uses F10 to open the first menu of the menubar (shift-F10 for > context menus). So even if the behavior could be implemented in the > window manager - it conflicts with applications and the toolkit, so > desktop-devel and gtk-devel need to be involved :-) Never heard of those, but it's interesting that some thought F10 was a good idea. It's like an extra extra light version of what I am suggesting. F10 would be my F1 ;-) > But note that with the design direction GNOME is taking, traditional > menu bars are going away completely for most applications (except for > applications with a lot of complexity like Office and Gimp). So I hear. That's seems like a bad idea to me. I'm all for intuitive interfaces, but I also think its good to have the reference that a set a menus provides to gice you an idea of what's possible. Thanks. -- Sorry, says the barman, we don't serve neutrinos. A neutrino walks into a bar. Trans <transf...@gmail.com> 7r4n5.com http://7r4n5.com _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
