Please, oh Ubuntu gods, allow the Global application menu to always be visible!
There's nothing worse than having to move your mouse around to discover what might be or might not be there. It takes all the snappiness out of the interface. This fading menu is a terrible idea! It means I have to continuosly hover my mouse over the top bar to see what the options are. How is this good? Even when I can remember what the menu options are, I still have to first move my mouse to the top and then move accross to the exact location of the menu item. It really slows my workflow down. Please fix it! The Unity interface is so nearly great!. it just has a few massive usability issues that stop it from being great. Like this one and also the fact that a large number of applications don't appear on the Alt-Tab menu even when they are running. Who is making these UI decisions? developers? Why do you think apple don't have fading menus? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/682788 Title: Improve Unity menus Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in Compiz: Triaged Status in Compiz Core: Triaged Status in Unity: In Progress Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Bug description: Global menu in general (not only in Unity) is very unergonomic on large screens (see the attached screenshot) because if you have a small window somewhere near the low right corner you have to move the cursor all the way up to to panel to reach the menu. I understand why the global menu was used for the netbook edition (it saves space and most windows are maximized), but since Unity is intended to be for the desktop edition there should be an option to switch to the traditional position of the app menu. It would be welcomed by many desktop users. A commonly suggested solution is: [ ] Global Menu on [ ] Global Menu off [ ] Global Menu only for maximized windows The default is usually suggested as either the first (on) or last (on only for maximized windows). ------------------------------------- Desired change: Implement the 'Enhanced Menu' project for 12.10. This project will address the issue described in this bug and also issues described in the duplicates of this bus. Note this is the 'official' bug that tracks the implementation of this project. 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... ;-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/682788/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
