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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371590
Title:
Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows
95 Start button
Status in Unity:
Expired
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
There is a really old usability bug relating to mouse accuracy, which
Ubuntu 14.04 has rediscovered in its global menu.
Basically, it's super easy to move your pointer fast and hard to the
extreme edge and corners of the screen, so you can hit targets placed
there quickly. But the global menu only activates if the cursor is a
pixel or two from the top of the screen. This is a massive usability
bug.
The example from the 90s (yes, 20 years ago) is that Win 95's start
button was offset from the bottom left corner by a couple of pixels.
That made it hard for people to hit, and if they'd only put it flush
with the bottom left it would have been way way easier to click. Hence
"snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" - e.g. in this post from
2000 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063.html
Hopefully this is an easy fix: extend the mouseover activation area
for the global menu to the top of the screen. Right to the top zeroth
row of pixels. Please?
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