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A superb idea. There's no need to include menus where none are needed,
especially for simple applications like Eidete. I do think that the context
menus in the dock can be pruned as well. There's no need for window
controls in the dock, and some simple menu items could be included without
making it look too cluttered.

On 29 May 2012 22:26, 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
>
>
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