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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mark,

Could we do something similar in the desktop edition? My screen doesnt
have the highest resolution and having 2 bars and the menu strip takes
up a lot of space. 
I know that Gnome shell is a single panel (for the moment anyway) but
can we do a global menu for gnome shell as well? (and I know that Shell
still might not be the default for 10.10 im just looking into the
future)

-fagan

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:49 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Hello folks
> 
> I blogged today about a decision we've taken to adopt a single menu in
> the panel, for the netbook interface. The blog is at
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359 and there will be some
> additional commentary from MPT and others on design.canonical.com in due
> course.
> 
> The rationale for the decision is the improved use of vertical space for
> the netbook use case, combined with a reduction in clutter for the whole
> UI and an improved ability to hit the menu. We feel that issues of the
> separation of menu and window are mitigated on small screens, the target
> audience of netbooks.
> 
> We've discussed the decision with the existing community that formed
> around the "Global Menu" project. We won't be adopting the exact same
> technology but are going to collaborate around the issues that the
> concept triggers: support for toolkits other than Gtk, and applications
> which use menus in unusual ways.
> 
> One very positive consequence of this decision, of course, is to
> mitigate the potential collisions between the menu's and the (x) window
> control :-)
> 
> Looking forward to the discussion here, and at UDS.
> 
> Mark
> 
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