Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-29 Thread Conscious User
> Well, with the solution presented earlier, there would not be that > problem, because *all* apps which were not maximized would have their > menu below the titlebar, and if you think about it, so would the > maximized windows, only it's not just below the titlebar, it's on it. Please do not

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 28, 2010, at 09:40 AM, Conscious User wrote: >I'm not talking about ***IF*** they are used to it. I'm talking about >***HOW*** they are used to it. So, I'm a long time OS X user and I've always been pretty happy about their user interactions. Before you jump down my throat :), let me also

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Silva
ubject: Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour I've been using a global menu in Gnome (viagnome2-globalmenu) for a couple years now. Because it doesn't work with a few applications (Firefox and OpenOffice), I have a bit of experience with trying to use the menu in two different places.

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Jake Tolbert
I've been using a global menu in Gnome (via gnome2-globalmenu) for a couple years now. Because it doesn't work with a few applications (Firefox and OpenOffice), I have a bit of experience with trying to use the menu in two different places. Simply put:

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 05:23 PM, Oscar RdG wrote: >I am using the global menu indicator on maverick desktop for a week now, and >I love it. I have found out that I do not use very often the app menu so I >like it on the panel, far from the window app, even with the small >applications (eg. Empathy, G

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Conscious User
"Heh, yeah because that would be unbiased :p We're pretty good at getting used to a system, even if it's inefficient, and we'll defend that system because we are familiar with it. It doesn't mean it's a good idea!" I'm not talking about ***IF*** they are used to it. I'm talking about ***HOW

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-28 Thread Luke Benstead
On 27 October 2010 22:27, Conscious User wrote: > > Before any kind of conclusions, a survey with long-time > OSX users should be made. After all, not only they use > a Global Menu all the time, but a lot of them also > have huge monitors. > > Heh, yeah because that would be unbiased :p We're pre

Re: [Ayatana] Global Menu behaviour

2010-10-27 Thread Conscious User
Before any kind of conclusions, a survey with long-time OSX users should be made. After all, not only they use a Global Menu all the time, but a lot of them also have huge monitors. Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 17:23 +0200, Oscar RdG a écrit : > Hi there, > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, A