On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Couldn't there be a common menu in the Shell that would work like the > application menu, but for documents? I think it would be a real benefit > to know that in every app you use, you're able to perform common actions > on the opened file, without thinking "where's that button/menu again? > what app am I using?". > > As a rough sketch, we have three items, the two latter being menus: > [Activities] [Application name:] [Document name]
That is interesting. I'm a bit dubious about making the app and document menus physically separate from the current window, but it's certainly a good idea to have standard actions for documents. > The Document menu would only be shown when the current window exports > some hint about the document it's currently editing, e.g. by a X > property on the window, which would be made easy via a simple GTK+ > function. Thanks for resurrecting this idea - I blogged a little summary a while ago - http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2010-08.html#which-document Maybe it's time to discuss it again with the KDE people; Lubos raised some interesting points. Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list