Re: top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

2012-07-11 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2012/7/11 Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com On 10 July 2012 04:49, Hannie Dumoleyn lafeber-dumole...@zonnet.nl wrote: As a member of the ubuntu manual team I started a discussion on how we should call this thing at the top of our screen. As a translator of the official Ubuntu documentation

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

2012-07-11 Thread Hannie Dumoleyn
Hi Paddy, Thanks for starting a discussion on this on the forums. It is quite interesting to read the suggestions, one of them particularly: are there plans to redo http://askubuntu.com/questions/10228/whats-the-right-terminology-for-unitys-ui-elements ?Here the answer to the question Is the

Re: top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

2012-07-11 Thread Hannie Dumoleyn
With more reactions coming in, I think menu bar is the favorite now. The explanation that this bar holds mainly menu's is a valid one. With the term top bar one refers to the location of the bar (at the top of the screen), while the term menu bar says more about the contents of the bar.

Re: top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

2012-07-11 Thread Nicolas Delvaux
Hi everyone, AFAIK Quantal will add an option to use old fashion menus AKA locally integrated menus instead of the global menu (well, it was originally planned for Precise...). Top Bar will also work in this case. It is more generic and it also gives a 'location hint' to the user (how will