Moving slingshot to plank and using ubuntu's global appmenu on wingpanel.
Having seen the goal for the final design for slingshot, wouldn't it make sense to move it to plank, so that plank would make the bottom of the screen the "go-to" edge to manage and launch applications? As it stands currently, it seems a tad counter-intuitive.
Part of the initial allure for wingpanel was that it was small - what if in place of slingshot one were to use Ubuntu's global appmenu? I linked to a screenshot of what my elementaryOS (10.10) looks like. You can see I'm launching Cardapio from AWN.
Maybe I'm too used to how the MacOSX works or moving too close to what Canonical is doing but the current setup seems to waste a lot of vertical space. GTK applications work really well with global appmenu (tried Midori, Postler).
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Since elementary apps have a 'gear menu'(or whatever its called :P) instead of a menubar, a globalmenu is not really needed. --grvrulz
@grvruls: imho if we are aiming for a consistent feel for the OS, our vision should extend beyond our own apps, since the user is almost definitely going to use non-elementary apps as well
I think that the global menu and window controls on the panel (Like in Unity) should be an option on Elementary, it saves a lot of space while keeping the indicatos visible and provides consistency and coherence. -- Davim
Elementary apps have a 'gear menu'(or whatever it's called). Non-Elementary apps don't. Linux desktop does not consist of elementary apps only. And never will.
Menubars are ugly and must die, I'm in full agreement with this. But let's get a little damn realistic - developers won't ditch them completely at least in five or seven years. And you won't replace me Gimp.
So. If we can't fight them, we can at least hide them, so that I do not see them most of the time. That should do it. - dr. Equivalent
I would really like to see global menu implementartion in Isis because i don't use elementary only apps. -yiyo
Global menu makes sense as people who are migrating to linux are use to using a file menu which was always at the top in windows (or mac), and also it is the right place to be. Globalmenu was introduced by apple to save the workspace. Gear menu solves the same purpose but it looks dumb.... just dumb. Also in Gear menu I hate the overlapping part when you open a submenu. The submenu overlaps the whole main menu. Its stupid. Sometimes I want to see in which menu I am and I cant do it in Gear menu. That sucks. - Jeevan
