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Personally I'd like it for the desktop too. I've grown quite accustomed to MacOSX's menubar.
It would be nice to at least have the option on the desktop, even if it is not the default.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png
It's not very consistent across applications, though. Hopefully Ubuntu's work here will also help more applications work with other implementations of it.
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A screenshot of a Lisa would do nicely too. I am happy this is only for the netbook version. It's a usability nightmare when you have a 30" monitor (or a couple big ones). Actually, with two monitors, OSX becomes pretty disorienting.
I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
It doesn't bother me too much when I am running a couple terminals and Emacs, or working on a spreadsheet on Google docs, but it would drive me crazy if I had to do it with Word. Specially with two or more 24+ inch screens.
I am curious as to how do you deal with this situation. Keyboard shortcuts or moving the mouse between monitors? How frequent is each situation?
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(I'm barely resisting the urge to post an OS X screen shot.) It's like http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ but modified to normally display the window title and only display menus on mouseover (hello discoverability).
A screenshot of a Lisa would do nicely too. I am happy this is only for the netbook version. It's a usability nightmare when you have a 30" monitor (or a couple big ones). Actually, with two monitors, OSX becomes pretty disorienting.
It's a pretty basic usability heuristic that states click targets on the edge of the screen are much more usable than floating targets.
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A screenshot of a Lisa would do nicely too. I am happy this is only for the netbook version. It's a usability nightmare when you have a 30" monitor (or a couple big ones). Actually, with two monitors, OSX becomes pretty disorienting.
I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
It's a little better with two 24" monitors.
Fitt's Law means that, in the relevant respect, the edge of the screen is always closer to your mouse than just about anything else.
I really admire Shuttleworth and the rest of the Ubuntu design team for being courageous about making basic changes to the desktop UI. Open source tends to produce a lot of design-by-committee or completely undesigned software, so having somebody making big decisions and experimenting is really valuable. Nobody else big is really doing this. There are plenty of alternative window managers for Linux or whatever, but f…
Personally I'd like it for the desktop too. I've grown quite accustomed to MacOSX's menubar.
Personally I'd like it for the desktop too. I've grown quite accustomed to MacOSX's menubar.
The article cites this option will be available. But on higher resolutions, it doesn't make sense, because it increases the distance between the window and the menu, requiring more mouse movement.
I really admire Shuttleworth and the rest of the Ubuntu design team for being courageous about making basic changes to the desktop UI. Open source tends to produce a lot of design-by-committee or completely undesigned software, so having somebody making big decisions and experimenting is really valuable. Nobody else big is really doing this. There are plenty of alternative window managers for Linux or whatever, but f…
I personally wish they would go and buy a Mac and leave the desktop as it is.
What's wrong with someone trying to innovate in the PC desktop space?
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The article cites this option will be available. But on higher resolutions, it doesn't make sense, because it increases the distance between the window and the menu, requiring more mouse movement.
OTOH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
