On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas
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Owais Lone wrote on 15/01/11 14:03:
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> I was just wondering if we could replace the window title in the panel
> with an application menu like firefox. Since we are also trying to move
> away from a menu bars, I think this could be a nice addition to the
> Unity desktop.
We aren't moving away from menu bars, and even if we were, adding
another menu wouldn't help. :-)
> This would also allow apps like Firefox and Opera to
> push their new menu buttons in the panel/titlebar in a sane way.
>...
The designers of Firefox and Opera are trying to reduce the amount of
stuff inside their windows.
Compressing them into a menu button is one way of doing that.
A simpler and more consistent way, for an application running on Ubuntu,
is to use the native Ubuntu menu bar.
I really want the app management commands to be easily and quickly available. Like Autostart, Remove or Upgrade. We can add these shortcuts to quite a few places like the launcher quicklist or dash itself but IMO it would be best to have these functions in the appmenu I'm proposing.