top bar, menu bar, panel or top panel

[Barry Drake]

On 10/07/12 09:49, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:
> As a member of the ubuntu manual team I started a discussion on how we 
> should call this "thing" at the top of our screen.
> As a translator of the official Ubuntu documentation (yelp) I noticed 
> that the word "panel" had been changed to "menu bar" in the Precise 
> version.

Hi there .....   Work I have put in on the help and support forum 
suggests that 'panel' is not a good term to use with folk who are new to 
Ubuntu.  I've had to refer to it as the 'top bar' or risk being asked 
'Where is this 'panel'.

Regards,        Barry.

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