On Mar 29, 2014 9:00 PM, "Luya Tshimbalanga" luya@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Perhaps I should post it on Gnome mailing list
Yes. We will not change GNOME significantly in Fedora - those changes need to happen upstream.
Combining both elements provides the result attached on this message. It is surprising that idea did not show on Gnome website.
The design team did some experiments with menubar replacements[0] - the one labeled "mega menu" looks closest to your suggestion. You might want to consider adding a comment there, linking to your suggestion.
The benefits are:
- easy to implement on complex applications like Gimp.
- Can use existing method
I'm not quite sure what this means, but applications have to be modified to use remote menus, and the required functionality is only available with GTK+-3. So apps that have not been ported or use GTK+-2 (GIMP), Qt or a custom toolkit (LibreOffice, Firefox) will not just work. (It works for Unity because Ubuntu applies large downstream patchsets to those packages which rip out windows' menubars behind the application's back; that is not an option for most upstreams or Fedora)
Just a couple of quick thoughts from my part, now let's move this to some GNOME list :-)
Cheers, Florian