Proposed panel menu structure for hoary

[Vincent Untz]

Hi Jeff,

Le samedi 04 décembre 2004 à 02:47 +1100, Jeff Waugh a écrit :
> Up top we have a selection of important user places - all of this is dynamic
> except for Home. Desktop and Documents only appear if they exist, and we may
> add other things listed in the Nautilus Places menu (Templates, Trash, etc)
> if we find it necessary. Under those common places, we list user configured
> items from the GtkFileChooser -> the ones on the left, under the separator.
> If you drag folders to that list, they'll appear here. Handy!

How will the FileChooser bookmarks be labeled? Will we just use the
folder name? It would be okay, but that's not a user-friendly label...

[snip]

> Finally, we have a 'System' menu. Suggestions welcome for a better name, as
> 'System' is remarkably generic. Another option is shifting this to an icon
> only menu at the top left (like the Apple menu in OS X). I'm not convinced
> it's important enough for that, however, but we could include some funkier
> stuff to make it so (longer discussion).

I like the "icon option": having a third label will take a lot of place
on the panel... But I'm not sure it's easily discoverable.

Vincent

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