** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: Won't Fix => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity-2d
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
** Changed in: unity
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
** Description changed:
Ubuntu Natty alpha 3
1. Log in to Unity, and try to connect to a server: "File" > "Connect to
Server".
2. Launch Firefox, and try to select an item from the "Bookmarks" menu.
What happens:
1. The "File" menu, and the rest of Nautilus's menus, are hidden by default.
- Unless you mouse over it, the menu bar is blank.
- When you mouse over it, the menus appear, but oddly displaced from the
right edge of the Ubuntu button.
2. The "Bookmarks" menu, and the rest of Firefox's menus, are hidden by
default.
- Unless you mouse over it, the menu bar contains only the text "Firefox Web
Browser", which isn't useful at all (especially, but not only, since the real
name of the application -- "Mozilla Firefox" -- is already present in the
window title bar).
- When you mouse over it, the menus appear, partly but not completely
replacing the previous text: "Firefox W File Edit View…".
What should happen: Menus should be visible by default, so that you can
know that they exist without scrubbing the screen, and so that you can
see where a menu is each time you aim for it.
The current behavior has led some people (including, this week, one of
my design colleagues) to conclude that Ubuntu applications don't have
menus when they do. For example
<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/gnome-shell-vs-ubuntu-
unity-which-desktop-wins/2291>: "One of the most handy menu entries in
GNOME (for me at least) is the Connect to Server entry in the Places
menu. This allows the user to connect to nearly any type of server
quickly and easily. The user can even connect to a Windows Share from
here. In Unity - you won’t find that. In fact, you will be hard pressed
to find any means to connect to a server in Ubuntu Unity."
And in bug 720424, Jono Bacon reports that "when we did some developer
tools usability testing last week and on some other occasions when I
have had someone use Unity, I have noticed that some folks don't realize
there is a menu there as it is not visible."
+
+ -------------------------------------
+ Desired change:
+
+ Implement the 'Enhanced Menu' project for 12.10.
+
+ The following options will be added to 'System Settings/Appearance':
+
+ -------
+ Menus
+ Location: Global/Local
+ Visibility: Hidden/Always displayed
+ -------
+
+ More details to follow during the 12.10 cycle... ;-)
** Tags added: udp
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea)
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: ayatana-design
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
** Changed in: unity
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: unity
Milestone: None => backlog
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Menus are hidden by default
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