2013/1/23 Brad Jensen <[email protected]> > WHY are we auto-hiding menu options?
Because the owner of the playground believes it's more aesthetically pleasing and that the menus are disturbing, ugly and awkward. He also believes this pack of peculiar opinions form a "rationale". Basic logic is not his forte. He's much better at insulting people (remember: the 600+ people subscribing this bug and opposing his "rationale" are a bunch of "petulants"). There's nothing that can be done. It's his money, it's his product, if you don't like it, look elsewhere or hope for the day he doesn't make or approve design decisions any more. You can also trust the few brave souls, capable of coding, capable of pushing the many rational objections there are to this ridiculous decision and expect them to fix it. I do, and I hope we'll see this fixed someday, making Ubuntu a much better OS, UI-wise, inspite of the childish attitude of the man in charge. -- 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 Global Menu Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in Compiz: Triaged Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Bug description: ===+++ _____________________ ! ALL USERS ! _____________________ +++=== ===+++ READ THIS BEFORE MAKING A COMMENT OR MODIFICATION +++=== IMPORTANT 1: Please don't post any "me too message"; use the "Does this bug affect you?" feature you can find a bit above this bug description on Launchpad. IMPORTANT 2: Do not post anything if you haven't read all comments to verify that your point hasn't been made. If you feel tempted to stop reading because there are too many messages, that is a strong indicator that you shouldn't add even more comments. Developers have a tough time to find anything if you post redundant stuff. So please abstain from doing that. ========= 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. Please try to find a solution for it that works. 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 ------- 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
