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[Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From an IRC conversation that I had with mpt a while back (a year or two
ago, now), we settled on the following definition. I added the
definition and the usage notes to the Ubuntu Manual Style Guide:

The menu bar is the bar along the top of the screen. It contains the
window title, window menus, application status menus, and system status
menus.  While it is colloquially referred to as the top bar or the top
panel, it should only be referred to as "menu bar" in the manual. (Note
that the "menu bar" used to be a single word, "menubar". "Menu bar"
should now be two words, however.)

If the names of any of these UI elements have changed, I'd like to know.
I'd like to have the manual, system docs, and user interface be
consistent. We should settle on canonical names for these elements and
file bugs against those that deviate from them.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1284221

Title:
  Shouldn't it be "menu bar" rather than "top bar"?

Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The new "Application Menu" UI in "System Settings -> Appearance ->
  Behavior" refers to the "top bar". I thought it was decided that the
  name of the thing is "menu bar". The desktop guide currently uses
  "menu bar" all over.

  https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/unity-menubar-intro.html

  I suppose it ought to be changed to "menu bar" in u-c-c for
  consistency reasons (even if I personally think that "top bar" would
  have been more clear).

  Adding the ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) task as a reminder of the need to
  include something in the docs about the new feature.

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