Default Panel Menu Setup

Steven Garrity stevelist at silverorange.com
Sun Dec 19 21:23:06 UTC 2004


Has any consideration been given to the menu configuration used by Ubuntu?

Here's a screenshot 
(http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=152&slide=50), 
but basically what I'm wondering about is the two primary menus being 
"Applications" and "Computer" with the "Computer" menu including links 
to key locations (Home, Desktop, Disks, Network, Recent Documents) and 
other system activities (Prefs, config, screenshot, lock, log-out).

Having seen Fedora, Novell Linux Desktop, and Ubuntu, I'm not even sure 
what the default Gnome menu configuration is anymore.

I'm quite skeptical that the relatively minor variations between the 
major distros on these menu layout issues leave any one distribution 
with a better solution (especially now that Fedora is closer to the 
upstream Gnome setup).

I understand that there is room for customization within distributions, 
but I'd love to see the best solution pushed upstream and adopted across 
the major distros.

While I'm a Fedora Core 3 user myself, I think the default menu 
breakdown (shown/described above) is the best I've seen.

Thanks,
Steven Garrity




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