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[Owais Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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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.
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>
> 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.