[Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

[GonzO <gonzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Ed Lin�<edlin280@xxxxxxxxx>�wrote:

With all due respect: I do not think your cases are all that common.

It doesn't for me, the only thing I use is clock. The rest is

irrelevant for my me most of the time. Wlan and battery? Not on a
desktop.

Desktops are becoming less and less popular, being replaced by Laptops and Netbooks... in which the battery, LAN, WLAN, BT thing are important and need to be twaddled with regularly.

�

Email and IM? My browser is all I need.

I think it is more than fair to say that, for some reason, using locally installed mail and IM clients is still what most people do. �(I still use Pidgin, though long ago gave up localized mail). �

�

Global menu? I use�keyboard shortcuts.

I sincerely doubt that this is a common scenario. �Even if I'm being generous, I can only believe that 50% of the users, maximum, even know that there *are* KB shortcuts for menus, much less what those shortcuts actually *are*.

�

But thanks for making my tabs harder to access.

Not all applications have tabs. �

So we'd be changing the structure to cater to the small handful of apps that do (even though, yes, the browser is a Real Important App(TM).

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ed Lin�<edlin280@xxxxxxxxx>�wrote:

A very rough sketch based on your image and parts scraped from google images...
http://i.imgur.com/WMLYk.png

Again, with all due respect: I do not think this is a good solution. �It is making the launcher... no longer a launcher, and too much functionality has already been shoehorned into this thing.

Not to mention, on a netbook resolution, *four* icon slots is way too much - that's practically half the launcher!

I like indicators being on the screen edge - that's pretty much the only way they're useful - but shoving them in the launcher, and taking so much of the launcher's estate to do it, is just not a functional idea. �

--G