From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: I think that the icon for the main menu on the panel is sort of misleading. I, although just guessing, think that most people will think of it as a launcher for programs. For me that is what those icons represent. They are launchers. The icon for the main menu should change sort of like this: * In the UI it should be seperated, in some way, from the other icons, so that at a first glance it do not look like any other launcher. This could be done by making it look more like Windows start-menu, or by adding a seperator of some sort. How the seperation and the icon turns out is not that importent. The main issue is that users should instantly know that the main menu is more than a program-launcher, and that they are not affraid of checking it out. It should be like the start-here launcher, which I feal attracts the user attention in a good way. I dont mean to change whats inside the menu, just the icon and its placement. And to stop theme-makers from creating themes that makes the effort useless of creating a new more userfriendly icon, i would suggest that making the "launcher" (hehe), take up more space than other icons, that is, more width or something (i guess changing height is a problem, since not all uses a fixed height for the panel). This way, even with the most uggly icon, it still seperates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Well, i usually just sit there watching the menu. I haven't got that much of a life ;) Expected Results: If my guess is correct that most new users would not instantly think of the main menu on the panel as the main menu to launch programs and settings, then i would have expected this to be the case. sort of :) Additional info:
The little arrow on the button is what we use to try and differentiate it from normal application launchers. I don't really have any better ideas. The icon itself lives in redhat-artwork, so I'll move there, but unless we actually have any better ideas it'll probably be closed as WONTFIX.
I don't really have any better ideas either.