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Unify name for the "window menu" and its button

John Veness requested to merge johnveness/kwin:window-menu-button into master

This MR unifies the user-visible name for what I've called the "window menu", and its associated button. This is the button that is by default in the top-left of a window with the application's icon, and that shows the menu with Maximize, Minimize, Close etc. when clicked.

At least at some point in the past, this was simply called the "Menu button" and that text was still in use in some places. More recently the name for the button (shown in the tooltip and in the Titlebar Buttons KCM) was changed to "More actions for this window". The keyboard shortcuts KCM called it "Window Operations Menu". The window behavior KCM called it the "Actions Menu".

I'm hoping that "window menu" is OK to use throughout. I considered unifying on "window actions menu", or on "window operations menu" button, but thought that just calling it the "window menu" was sufficient.

The tooltip "More actions for this window" when hovering over the window menu button comes from kdecoration, not from kwin, so if this MR is accepted I'll open an MR there too.

Before After
Window Behavior before.png Window_Behavior_after
Window_Behavior_2_before Window_Behavior_2_after
Window_Decorations_before Window_Decorations_after
Keyboard_Shortcuts_before Keyboard_Shortcuts_after
Fullscreen_warning_before Fullscreen_warning_after
No_border_warning_before No_border_warning_after
Window_Behavior_help_before Window_Behavior_help_after
Window_Behavior_2_help_before Window_Behavior_2_help_after
Window_Decorations_help_before Window_Decorations_help_after

CC: @teams/usability

BUG: 499700 BUG: 504807

Edited by John Veness

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