[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#755750: Bug#755750: empathy: Missing menu in 'Contacts List'; incorrect application of Unity-specific change?

[Daniel Dickinson]

On 23/07/14 05:53 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 23/07/14 00:06, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> There is no way to perform actions previously performed from the 'Contact List' menu because the
>> top menu bar no longer displays.
> 
> Are you using GNOME Shell? If you are, the "application menu" for
> application-wide things has moved to the top bar, between "Activities"
> and the clock.

Ah, ok, I was looking in the wrong spot (I was unaware of this change
but did look for an menu, but on the opposite side of the top bar, by
the tray)

This is a case of design changing and my not knowing the new design, so
not a operational bug, but more of a problem of changing things for old
users without telling them in a sufficiently visible way issue (if it's
is the changelog or 'news' that's not particularly helpful when doing an
upgrade from wheezy to jessie due to the sheer volume of changes that
get reported by e.g. apt-listchanges).

Regards,

Daniel

> 
> If not, what desktop environment are you using? The menu is meant to
> appear in the Contact List window under desktops not resembling GNOME
> Shell or Unity.
> 
> Do other GNOME applications with only one menu have a similar issue?
> (gucharmap makes a good simple example)
> 
>> This is perhaps because of incorrect application of changes
>> from Ubuntu for Unity (where the menus appear in the top bar instead of in individual application
>> menus)
> 
> GNOME 3.x (for sufficiently large values of x) has an analogous design:
> application-wide menu items move to the application menu in the Shell,
> window- or document-oriented menu items stay in the window.
> 
>     S
>