Public bug reported: 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? ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371590 Title: Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows 95 Start button To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1371590/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
