Hello, Let's pursue this. Now adding GNOME Shell ML in the loop.
There's been a long discussion on this (see archives in July<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2010-July/thread.html>and August <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2010-August/thread.html>). In the Ubuntu side of things, Unity's pursuing the menu on the top panel. How about for GNOME Shell? One of the most compelling options is the AppMenu<http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/AppMenu>. What's the status of this in GNOME Shell? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Allan Caeg <allanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's try > this<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2010-July/msg00022.html>again. > > Upstream people are innovating when it comes to the menu bars and window > borders. This is very obvious in popular web browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and > Opera. Chrome is so liberal that it draws its own window border. > > Opera guys could be limited by the Linux desktop conventions and technical > limitations so they settled with > this<http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/7135/screenshot1rd.png> > . > > As for Firefox, their UX guys respect the platform's conventions so they > didn't add the Firefox > button<https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/img/firefox/beta/4/features/screen-firefox-button.png> > to > Firefox 4 Beta (yet, at least). They're also limited by technical issues so > they can't provide the option to add it yet. > > The issue is great cross-platform apps are replacing the menu bar with a > menu button (Firefox Button for Firefox, Opera button for Opera, and some > unnamed button for Chrome) and tweaking the window borders. However, they're > limited in the Linux desktop because of technical and UX issues. Tweaking > the window border and menu bar break things and violate conventions. > > Conventions in Windows and OS X are evolving (see the ribbon interface and > app buttons on Office, Paint, etc.) while the Linux desktop is limited > (probably) because we can't make new things work everywhere (different > window managers, desktop environments, etc.). > > What do we do about this? People involved in the Windicators project (I'm > not) may know something that could help. > > -- > Regards, > Allan > http://www.google.com/profiles/AllanCaeg#about<http://www.google.com/profiles/allancaeg#about> > +63 918 948 2520 > > -- Regards, Allan User Experience Designer and Advocate http://www.google.com/profiles/allancaeg#about<http://www.google.com/profiles/AllanCaeg> +63 918 948 2520
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