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["Andrea Basso" <voluntatefaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I agree, it's something we need to solve, it's pointless and quite ugly to  
have the appmenu only for the About item.

On the other hand I'm not sure the quicklist is the most suited place. I  
don't know, the quicklist is to save time, to launch the app in a  
different way, not really to interact with it. Midori does have a "New  
Tab" item in quicklist, but I for one have never used it, and I think  
almost everyone else has never did. Once an app is started and running,  
you're not supposed and you don't think it's possible to interact with it  
via the quicklist.

I don't really know how to integrate it into eOS, but I feel the best way  
to proceed is to have an external menu, something a la Gnome Shell. It  
would be a place where the user can always find the about dialog, it  
solves problem with apps that don't need a toolbar and increases  
compatibility a lot (with Gnome apps and since it's external we could even  
have normal gtk apps use it, like Ubuntu does with the global menu).

Regards,
Andrea Basso

On Tue, 29 May 2012 18:56:55 +0200, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> When we first did the AppMenu, I think we felt that having only a single
> menu for an app was being extremely optimistic about it's design. But it
> seems that even so, some of the apps that have been built for elementary
> (Switchboard, Eidete, etc) are so contextual and awesome that they don't
> need an AppMenu at all except for a single item: About.
>
> What I'd like to propose is moving "About" into a quicklist item. I think
> this would make sense because it's About the App not just the current
> Window, and it would give us a consistent place to put this item (that  
> I'm
> pretty sure we all want for all of our apps) without requiring
> yet-another-otherwise-useless-piece-of-UI.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel Foré
>
> elementaryos.org