Comments on: Indicator Panel Menu Rocks The House

By: zelrik

zelrik — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:03:57 +0000

looks like MacOSX to me. Be ready for the patent lawsuits.

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:40:41 +0000

I think it’s important to have the name of the application in the indicator panel (à la globalmenu/OSX).

By: curtis

curtis — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:54:34 +0000

I have been using Ubuntu since 7.04 and I am not trying to damper things. I appreciate all that has and is being done in the community. This feature needs to be fixed so that it is not a copy cat of OS X. I just don’t want Ubuntu to be scrutinized over something as petty as this from Apple.

By: w1ngnut

w1ngnut — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:52:28 +0000

Agree. And it also doesn't look like professional environment to work on. Now I figure out why I take ages to configure my Gnome and even though I sill doesn't get an pleasant environment to work as OSX or Windows.

Please fix this fonts.

By: CruelAngel

CruelAngel — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:44:48 +0000

Bzzzz! Wrooong!

It was used in desktop environments way back in the '80-s even before Apple used it. d:

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:15:17 +0000

That is the main thing holding Gnome back from ever looking as sexy as OSX or even windows 7; no matter how you theme it everything ends up looking too chunky and big. Everything in a Gnome GUI just takes up more space than it should.

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:47:22 +0000

Cool, but… wasn’t the idea to get rid of menus like that from most places? Kinda like windoze did? Or google with Chrome… or the upcoming firefox… or opera etc?

By: frej soya

frej soya — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:02:34 +0000

If you want to fix pixel waste then look at font height (both vera sans and yours seem quite tall) and also the waste of space in gtktreeview (ie, compare rhythmbox to say... itunes).

No reason we must have same fontsize for menus and in view of data (rows).

By: Owais Lone

Owais Lone — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:19:43 +0000

@Jono, I’d like to check out the font. I it is in private-beta but hey, I won’t tell anyone if it doesn’t look good.

Give me the OTF. please please please mate.

By: Owais Lone

Owais Lone — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:12:42 +0000

This is brilliant. I've always used the age old GnomeGlobalMenu only to find out that it doesn't integrate well. No QT support, no XUL support. Now I can have a global menu that rocks.

I tested it a few days back and it made my Gimp and Inkscape crash with some D-Bus error. Is that still the case?