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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Mario, This is true that would mean that About dialog can't be shown in
all DE's. But, I think as we move forward we're going to have to do things
that will start to break other DE's in order to really get our apps the
best they can be.

However, adding actions to a .desktop in this way is being proposed
upstream to FD.o so this may be the way that GNOME handles it's AppMenus
and Unity handles it's quicklists in the future. So I don't think we should
worry too much about breaking other DE's.

@Satchit, I also agree that having window controls in the quicklist menu
seems silly. I don't know of anyone who uses them for this and I would
advocate removing that from all of our apps.

@Andrea, the quicklist *is* our external menu. I don't think it'd make
sense to add yet-another-menuing-system.


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> In this way the about dialog can't be showed in all DEs. I think however
> that this is a problem for Luna+1 because we can surely found a better
> solution for it.
>
> Mario Guerriero
> Sent from iPhone 3GS
>
> Il giorno 29/mag/2012, alle ore 18:56, Daniel Foré <
> daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> 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
>
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Daniel Foré

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