Selection bias. This is a bug report in which the global menu functionality on
unmaximized windows is reported as a bug. Of course the vast majority of people
on this page are against this feature. So I'll speak in favor of it.
Personally i love global menu (both on maximized and unmaximized windows) and
it's *the* feature that keeps Ubuntu my OS of choice. Since when I got used to
it "no global menu" -> "not an options as personal OS " (and my screen is
1600x900, for those saying that if the screen is > 1280x1024, than global menu
is bad)
For those talking about auto-hiding and 'easy discovery of menu options':
there's HUD for that now. It's amazing. The concept behind it has been proved
successful in the past, on desktops: dash/launchers vs desktop icons, web
search engines vs web directories.
Example: I wonder if GIMP has a function for lens flare. With HUD i press alt
and type 'flare'. With the menu, i explore lists and sublists of menus
categories until I find it (assuming I don't miss it)- The only case when the
normal menus are better is when I want to just 'explore' the options, without
looking for anything in particular ("Let's see if there is something cool"),
How many times does that happens? 1 per application per lifetime? Well, for
that time you can do the enormous effort of moving the mouse a little higher.
A lot of people here lamenting Unity sounds a lot like those windows users that
try some distro and say "Where is the start button? What, there isn't one?!
This OS is stupid!".
That being said, unless it's difficult to implement (I doubt it) I don't
see why not give the users the option to disable it.
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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:
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abstain from doing that.
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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).
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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':
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Menus
Location: Global/Local
Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed
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