-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 18/05/11 09:02: >... > There are also more situations where the global menu works like a > crippled narwhal. E.g. when working with programs as GIMP. GIMP has > one main application window and several smaller windows with tools > and such and if you have one of the smaller windows active you can't > reach the menu, even if they are a part of the same application. You > must target the main window and then you can reach the menu.
That isn't an unfixable design flaw, it's just a bug. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/646029> (I realize that to users, those two situations are indistinguishable.) Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 19/05/11 10:15: > > 2011/5/19 Florian Diesch <die...@spamfence.net >... >> It's about impossible to use "focus follows mouse" and multiple >> windows with the global menu, which makes it unusable for me. > > This is a great example for when the global menu isn't such a great > idea as everyone thought before Natty. >... That isn't correct. I specified how it could work with focus follows mouse in May 2010, months before Natty even had a name. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#focus-follows-mouse> - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk33fdUACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoZPQCffDfLAaqKPGBHpNb1rdD68bA0 cBQAnRw41XrcmhsiTBwK2pgVdCiiiQmt =OMsm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp