Preferences gone from main menu?

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 21:25:08 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:02 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005 6:41 AM, nodata <fedora at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151257
> 
> I'm really not sure this is a bug. and a developer has already chimed
> in on that bug report.  Upstream gnome  has made the "menu bar" the
> default panel menu ui.. and fedora follows upstream as much as
> possible. The menu bar approach has Applications/Places/Desktop  as
> seperate dropdown menus in the panel.
> The single foot/hat icon menu is no longer a default panel item and
> was restructured as part of the upstream design decisions.
> 
> -jef
> 

I think "My Settings" and "System Settings" would be a good alternative.
Still under Desktop yes, but at least "My Settings" is less ambiguous
than "Preferences". "Are they System-preferences or my preferences?",
etc




More information about the test mailing list