unity-design team mailing list archive

[mac_v <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 11:19 +0000, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Hey Mark 
> 
> Just a little correction, the most recent versions of Gnome-Shell have
> the same menu structure as it is now in gnome-panel. Applications,
> places and the system menu are the same. They added a frequently used
> applications thing and a search bar but other than that not much has
> changed. 
> I think they want to get away from the "old" model but they havent
> thought of anything concrete to replace it yet. 
> 
> Regards
> Shane Fagan
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ayatana List <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator: Listing apps in menu even if
> they are not on
> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:06:22 +0000
> 
> Paulo J. S. Silva wrote: 
> > I must agree.
> > 
> > It feels now very odd to see the Systems menu without any icons (only
> > to open a submenu like Administration or Settings with tons of icons
> > in it). All other menus in the panel have icons (applications and
> > places). I don't see why Systems doesn't. I knew something was
> > perturbing me and now I see the problem, as mac_v said, it is the lack
> > of consistency. And now we have the indicator applet (which is a mix
> > between a launcher and an status display) also avoid icons. That is
> > two menus with and two without icons.
> >   
> 
> The GNOME Shell effort is doing away with the Applications, Places and
> System menus. And our Netbook launcher Unity doesn't have them, either.
> And there are many things running on your system which don't have icons!
> So this is the general direction we are heading in.
> 
> Mark

Looks like the Activities [applications] menu is going to have larger
icons for the applications than what we have now in gnome2. 
The icons in gnome3 are 48px than the present 24px. 

So now the messaging menu will be the odd one out  , even when gnome3
lands.

Even the top menubar ,Listing the app has bigger icons.

http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/11/14/mockturtlesuppe/


-- 
Cheers,
mac_v