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[Allan Caeg <allancaeg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Me neither :-(
>
> For a while, I thought a windicator would work, but I can't think of a
> relevant status that covers the use cases of the menu.... other than a
> "tools" icon, which isn't status at all.
>
> Functionally, I think a windicator would work just fine (it's a menu on the
> window decoration, just what the doctor ordered). But it would really be
> messing with the concept, and likely to lead to all sorts of abuse if
> encouraged.
>
> However, in 10.10 Netbook Edition, with Unity, we're already making menus
> much less visible by hiding them under the window title in the panel unless
> invoked with mouse or Alt. That's for the maximised browser window case,
> which is I think the one where the user is most concerned with pixel
> efficiency.
>
> How about if we start with that?
>
> Mark
>

That could work for Unity (though I'm not very familiar with it), but we
also have to think about other platforms. Got to think about something that
will work upstream (GNOME). Let's not forget other desktop environments too.
It's Firefox on the Linux desktop that we're talking about so there's a lot
more to it than its presence on Unity.

Ideas, anyone?

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Allan
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