MenusRevisited
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/menus-revised
Created: Date(2005-10-27T20:38:18Z) by JaneWeideman
Contributors: JaneWeideman, CoreyBurger
Packages affected:
Reviewer Comments
MarkShuttleworth: please restructure this spec. It needs to have:
- An overall set of policy guidelines... like "things that need sudo should not be under applications except in extreme cases".
- A set of specific Dapper decisions.
These things should be at the top of the spec. The use cases are nice but fluffy, and should be pushed further down.
Summary
"We must be proactive, eternally vigilant, forever fighting, overwhelmingly clever and handsome." - Robert Love The GNOME menu system has not had a good review in quite some time. There are some issues that need to be addressed.
The current menu structure is less than ideal in certain places.
We should probably coordinate with upstream (Gnome) during their 2.14 cycle.
The following general policy guidelines are followed in each decision The seperation between Applications > System Tools and the System menu must be removed. This will be achieved by removing the items in Applications > System Tools With above, items that are mostly system administration tasks and/or use gksudo should be moved to System > Administration Items which affect only the current user are to be moved to System > Preferences Anything else that is not going to be hidden/removed is moved to Applications > Accessories
- replace with Alt+dragging and D&D from gnome-app-install? - move to "System" > "Preferences"? - already has a "Menus & Toolbars" item! - nuke bug-buddy (obsolete with LaunchpadIntegration) - Hide due to [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302038 Replace "Floppy Formatter" with item in Nautilus's File menu] - move to "System" > "Administration" - move to "System" > "Administration" - move to "System" > "Administration" - move to "System" > "Administration" Other programs that would add themselves to System Tools need to add themselves elsewhere. -TODO - generate list after ubz
- [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302035 Add "Make Compressed File..." to Nautilus's File menu]
GNOME BitTorrent "Internet" > "Evolution Mail" vs. "Office" > "Evolution" OpenOffice from Template
known caveats: make certain hiding applications does not remove it from Open With menu.
"File Management": remove (redundant with "Edit" > "Preferences" - [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3787 Better handling of something something] - "About Me" + "Users & Groups" + "Sessions" - "Font" + "Theme" - "Keyboard" + "Keyboard Shortcuts" Rationale
Use Cases
Outstanding issues
Implementation
General Policy
Specific Menu Item Actions
Purging "System Tools"
Accessories
Graphics
"Internet" and "Office"
Sound and video
Shortening "System" > "Preferences"
See also [http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited PreferencesRevisited]