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Coloured 'Programme' Text Icon on Upper Left Corner?


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I've just been wondering what is the actual name for the Coloured 'Programme' Text Icon on Upper Left Corner? eg: Orange Firefox button, Red Opera button, Blue Trillian button?

Just something that's bugging me :D

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There's no canonical name for it yet, is there? Personally I'd call it a 'menu button', seeing as it provides a UI for commands which would otherwise be available in a traditional File/Edit/etc menu.

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There's no canonical name for it yet, is there? Personally I'd call it a 'menu button', seeing as it provides a UI for commands which would otherwise be available in a traditional File/Edit/etc menu.

'Menu Button' will forever be stuck in my head :D

At first I though it was just a browser thing as I'd only seen it on Opera and then later on Firefox however it's on Trillian and other programmes as well.

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I see a lot of people calling it the App Button when it comes to modding it but I agree that in my head it will always be called the menu button :p

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App button.

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It originated in Office 2007.

Knew I'd seen it somewhere else before :) Gotta say the way Opera, Firefox etc have done the app/menu button is much better than the way it was in Office 2007 where IIRC it was just the Office logo on the button. Having text instead of a image/logo is much better IMO.

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Knew I'd seen it somewhere else before :) Gotta say the way Opera, Firefox etc have done the app/menu button is much better than the way it was in Office 2007 where IIRC it was just the Office logo on the button. Having text instead of a image/logo is much better IMO.

At least for web browsers, I'd prefer the menu button is just an icon. By default, the Firefox button takes up too much tab bar space. It may not be a problem for people running at higher resolutions, but I still use 1280x1024.

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In Visual Basic, the property you change to edit the little picture is the "Icon" property. I know it's not the Icon in the regular sense of the word (as in a desktop shortcut icon), but nevertheless the property is called Icon.

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At least for web browsers, I'd prefer the menu button is just an icon. By default, the Firefox button takes up too much tab bar space. It may not be a problem for people running at higher resolutions, but I still use 1280x1024.

LOL, I'm still using 1024*768 I've only just recently upgraded to a 1366*768 on my laptops. :D

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