Comment 19 for bug 649560

On 06/03/11 12:41, Matthew East wrote:
> On 6 March 2011 11:46, Mark Shuttleworth <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks Matthew - the current plan is to put an entry at the bottom of
>> the session menu (top right corner, power on/off image) which links to a
>> set of all the settings tools, either as gnome-control-center (which
>> apparently has a lot of issues) or a Dash search.
> That sounds like a strange place to put it to me, I certainly wouldn't
> think to look there for settings and I don't think others would.

That menu will change to being a "device" menu, where we cue things like
updates and provide for shutdown/restart as well as hardware-related
status, like raid failures. The icon will, accordingly, be a better
teaser than the current "power" icon. We'll test it to make sure. That
work is under way.

>> The rationale for this is that the menu is guaranteed available and easy
>> to describe to all users, consistently across both Unity and Classic
>> interfaces.
> It seems to me that the solution is to put a settings menu underneath
> the applications menu on the main panel. I haven't tried the classic
> interface, but I assume that users of that can still easily find the
> settings in the "System" menu.

I don't understand what you mean by "underneath the applications menu on
the main panel"?

Mark