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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/06/10 12:19, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> >            Currently, we only have Vertical layered controls. Each
> > vertical row contains one function, and ought to be indicated in
> > consistent ways (i.e., the triangles for running programs, the dots for
> > status, the check for play/pause, sometimes the icon changes...) and I
> > think its going to mess up that consistency with adding horizontal
> > functions as well. part of the reason these applets are great is the
> > ability to use pretty fast keyboard shortcuts to control things, and
> > being the literally every single one so far has only vertical, lets not
> > add the horizontal (i'm referring specifically to the next and previous
> > buttons on either side of the play button).
>
> In the status menus, *most* elements will be vanilla vertical menu
> items. But standard menus have included occasional horizontal elements
> for decades -- from color swatch submenus in Amiga applications in the
> late 1980s, through to the Label section of the Mac Finder's "File" menu
> since 2003, and Empathy's "Insert Smiley" submenu in Ubuntu circa 2009.

Because of the potential issues horizontal navigation introduces in
indicator menus, we have tried to take great care to specify the exact
behaviour whenever horizontal nav within a menu is a possibility. Please
do report cases that don't work, or which are not precisely and
completely spec'd.

Mark

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