Menu changes

[Maik Adamietz]

I just got the updates on my 13.10 development setup and had a look at the
Menu after the reboot. I really like it as is now and makes sense to me. It
looks indeed much cleaner that way.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> Anyone who feels like trying out 13.10, please look at the menu(s) and
> give feedback.
>
> The major change is that the settings menu is gone to be completely
> replaced by the settings manager. Anything that used to be in the settings
> menu is now accessible from the settings manager. This is much cleaner
> than having some settings in a menu and some other ones in the settings
> manager.
>
> Xubuntu has also done this (for 13.04 actually) but many of the system
> utilities ended up in the xubuntu settings that I felt belonged in the
> system menu. (software installation, disk partitioning, etc.) I have fixed
> that in ours.
>
> I have also tried to make sure the various settings are in the right
> group. Because we use setting utilities from other places besides xfce for
> some things, the categories don't line up as well as they could. I have
> tried to make the best placement manually. Please feel free to comment on
> this as I can change which group things show up in.
>
> I have added an audio group for audio specific settings.  Anything I
> should add there? Or should all of these things end up as part of the
> audio production menu? Right now it is just LADI config and the LADI log
> file viewer, but any audio controls could go here... or they could go in
> the audio menu somewhere.
>
> The other possibility I considered is to also incorporate the system
> utilities into this manager and get rid of the system menu as well. I felt
> that was to big of a change to just go there. I'm not sure that would be
> better.
>
> I don't think I have real strong preferences here. I just tried to make
> sense.
>
>
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