Default Panel Menu Setup

Nando nandox7 at myrealbox.com
Mon Dec 20 01:06:54 UTC 2004


Steven Garrity wrote:

> 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
>
True.
Currently fedora distribute some tools that belongs to the same type. 
Having configuration tools, scattered across several menus. Would be 
nice to have one off these two features,
1 - A reorganization of the menus;
2 - Menu editing.

I'd prefered both, but one off them would be nice.

Nando




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