Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

夜神 岩男 supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp
Tue Mar 27 09:28:03 UTC 2012



--- On Tue, 2012/3/27, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has
> > moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4
> >
> > My reaction to this is "What in the $#@! is going on?!?".
> >
> > Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where
> > no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by
> > accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Does anyone understand the logic behind this apparent
> > wildly popular meme of hiding essential controls where
> > no one is ever likely to stumble across them?
> 
> Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for
> single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu
> by the app.
> 
> https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu

...doesn't that literally mean "yes" ?


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