If the menu being in the exact same place is "how it should be" then why not have Maximize/Minimize/Close up there the whole time too?
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:20:54 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] What to do with the menubar on non-full screened > windows. > > > If the invariant condition here is "the menu goes with the > > title and controls", than it really would seem more consistent to have the > > menu-bar in/near the title-bar for non-maximized windows, whether as a > > traditional menubar, a menu-bar-in-titlebar, or a menu button. > > I don't feel like that is the case. Instead, the condition is that the menu > bar is always in the panel. The Menu is always in the exact same place, which > is how it really should be. The window controls are only in the panel for > maximized windows, so they vary more than the menu does. > > On 03/29/11 09:15:20, [email protected] wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 08:16, Saleel Velankar > > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > > > The global-menubar fails for these reasons. > > 1. Confusion on which application the menu is for. > > 2. Having to move the mouse an obscene amount > > > > 3. Â Breaking focus-follows-mouse. > > Maybe this is just another inconsistency. To me it seems like > > when the window is maximized, we want the "window titlebar", with its > > controls and title, to be *inside* the panel, and that's also where we're > > putting the menu. If the invariant condition here is "the menu goes with > > the > > title and controls", than it really would seem more consistent to have the > > menu-bar in/near the title-bar for non-maximized windows, whether as a > > traditional menubar, a menu-bar-in-titlebar, or a menu button. Each has > > some > > advantages and disadvantages. > > Â > > > > -- > > > > Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: -=Â [2][email protected]Â =-Â > > > > --0016369f9b18b48439049fa0789a-- > > > > References > > > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > > 2. mailto:[email protected] > > > > > -- Ian Santopietro > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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