Menu Bar

[Dylan McCall]

Ted Gould told me on May 5 that the top panel is the menu bar and the
indicators should all be referred to as menus, like Sound Menu and
Messaging Menu.
Here's the mailing list message:
https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04905.html
Unfortunately nobody else said anything to confirm or deny that, but
Ted knows what he is doing.

I, for one, am pretty happy with the menu bar idea because it makes it
very easy to point people in that direction (“X menu” inherently
belongs to the menu bar), and we used to have “the applications menu”
anyway. It's probably worth bringing up terminology at UDS-O, because
that really needs communication across teams; no one team will be able
to nail this. Especially over email.

Dylan

PS: I'm unsure if this relates to Natty's documentation. If it does,
please remember that nobody else can change at this point without
needing to sacrifice a chicken first :)

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
> On 2011-04-27 21:13, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> In accordance with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar I propose we refer
>> to the top panel as the "menu bar."
>
> I think you jump at conclusions from the title of that wiki page. To me
> the page does not seem to discuss the term to be used to refer to the
> menu.
>
> Unlike the current "top bar", "menu bar" would be ambiguous. Unity's
> launcher is well as much a menu bar IMO, even if it's vertical.
>
> As Phil let us know at
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2011-April/015631.html, the
> GNOME term "top bar" has been carefully considered. Is there a good
> reason for us to deviate from GNOME in this respect?
>
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