*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 682788 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 732653
Menus are hidden by default
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 682788
Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721850
Title:
Usability: The application menu is hard to find in Natty
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in Unity:
New
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I just tested Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 a bit and I think for average users
it may be very hard to find the menu of applications.
Because the menu is hidden and only appears when the user hovers over
the panel with the mouse, he can only find the menu, if he already
knows that it is located there, which is an obvious contradiction.
However, a user has almost no reason to try and hover the panel in his
search for the menu, because it is not visually connected to the
application at all.
New users, who don't follow closely the development of Ubuntu, as well
as users migrating from Windows will have a hard time finding the
application menu. I would consider this a major usability regression.
I know, that one might argue, that this is only valid the first time
the user uses Ubuntu, but please note that there are a lot of users,
who use the computer very seldomly or use Windows most of the time.
(Perhaps it is necessary to mention, that I myself am a Linux-only
user for over 10 years now)
I don't really see a reason, why the menu shouldn't be visible all the
time, regarding the vast amount of horizontal space in the panel,
which is now just empty.
Please think of someone near you, who doesn't use computers a lot,
your parents or grand parents perhaps, and ask yourself honestly if
they would get along easily with the current design.
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