[Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Terry
Hello! I was about to implement a part of the new System Settings spec [1] when I saw that it referred to the unity panel as "the top bar". But in a past cycle, I implemented the Time & Date spec [2] which has UI that refers to the unity panel as "the menu bar". So which one is the official

[Ayatana] Universal Access font size

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Terry
Hello again! I'm looking into the Universal Access panel visual refresh [1]. One thing I noticed is that the spec has the controls all using the normal system font size. Whereas the current panel in Ubuntu uses a larger font size to help people with poor eyesight. Now, of course the larger

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Terry
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 10:29:41 CET, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: "The menu bar", lower case, separate words. Hrm. I'm at a Rally with some other design folks, and talked to them yesterday about this question. They said "top bar" is the new phrasing because of the plan to allow menus to be integr

Re: [Ayatana] What to call the unity panel?

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Terry
On Tue 24 Jan 2012 10:52:43 EST, John Lea wrote: "Top bar" is the term we have been using, it used to be "Panel" but this was a hangover from the Gnome2 days. mpt says "menu bar" so can you two hug it out and decide which one is better? :) -mt __