I think that's a great idea... I mean, we talked about it back at UDS-P and it's just as valid now. Another possible plus side is the potential for compatibility with GNOME. I know we don't care to cater to GNOME specifically, but I don't see a problem with making our About items show up in the right spot in GNOME Shell as well as in our apps' dock items. On May 29, 2012 1:09 PM, "satch...@gmail.com" <satch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A superb idea. There's no need to include menus where none are needed, > especially for simple applications like Eidete. I do think that the context > menus in the dock can be pruned as well. There's no need for window > controls in the dock, and some simple menu items could be included without > making it look too cluttered. > > On 29 May 2012 22:26, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> When we first did the AppMenu, I think we felt that having only a single >> menu for an app was being extremely optimistic about it's design. But it >> seems that even so, some of the apps that have been built for elementary >> (Switchboard, Eidete, etc) are so contextual and awesome that they don't >> need an AppMenu at all except for a single item: About. >> >> What I'd like to propose is moving "About" into a quicklist item. I think >> this would make sense because it's About the App not just the current >> Window, and it would give us a consistent place to put this item (that I'm >> pretty sure we all want for all of our apps) without requiring >> yet-another-otherwise-useless-piece-of-UI. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Daniel Foré >> >> elementaryos.org >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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