If these comments reveal anything it's that different people want to work in different ways. Those of us whose other main machines are Macs want a permanently visible global menu; those whose other machines are Windows, or just came from earlier versions of Gnome, want menus attached to the windows, and a variety of other options - wow, people still do focus-follows-mouse? :-P
TBH I think most of the problem here has been the recent-years fetish with removing user preferences for this stuff; that's what makes the decision to go with the "wrong" paradigm as default a major PITA for already-competent users rather than a minor annoyance that's fixed within a minute or two of first logging into a new system. Choose whatever default behaviour you want for the new-to-ubuntu user; but give the rest of us *choices*! It's good to see that seems to be the way the current thinking is leading; I just hope we all get the choices we want. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity menus Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in Compiz: Triaged Status in Compiz Core: Triaged Status in Unity: In Progress Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Bug description: Global menu in general (not only in Unity) is very unergonomic on large screens (see the attached screenshot) because if you have a small window somewhere near the low right corner you have to move the cursor all the way up to to panel to reach the menu. I understand why the global menu was used for the netbook edition (it saves space and most windows are maximized), but since Unity is intended to be for the desktop edition there should be an option to switch to the traditional position of the app menu. It would be welcomed by many desktop users. A commonly suggested solution is: [ ] Global Menu on [ ] Global Menu off [ ] Global Menu only for maximized windows The default is usually suggested as either the first (on) or last (on only for maximized windows). ------------------------------------- Desired change: Implement the 'Enhanced Menu' project for 12.10. This project will address the issue described in this bug and also issues described in the duplicates of this bus. Note this is the 'official' bug that tracks the implementation of this project. The following options will be added to 'System Settings/Appearance': ------- Menus Location: Global/Local Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed ------- More details to follow during the 12.10 cycle... ;-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/682788/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
