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[Ayatana] Fwd: Awesome critical review of Unity



Hi list,

First of all I don't have Unity installed currently and I'm not a native English speaker but I'd like to share an idea I've had. I'd like to discus combining the mockup I've quoted and the menu button as seen in the youtube video (and Firefox 4 on Win7). If we make the windowtitle of the window a button on all floating windows we achieve the goal of decluttering the desktop and it doesn't get into the mess of trying to put a whole menubar inside a tiny titlebar for small windows and it'll leave room for dragging the window. It doesn't require a click on the window to make it focused and then going back to the top panel to select an option (something I find myself doing all the time on osx). This means that it only requires an extra click on already focused windows.

There is another advantage if multiple windows are maximized. I don't need to know which window is maximized and focused, I should recognize it from the content displayed in the window itself covering my whole screen. Therefore we could display the menubuttons of all maximized windows next to each other on the panel exposing the menu of the hidden maximized window and at the same time provide information on which windows are lurking beneath (probably going from left to right in order of being maximized (or opened), like tabs). These menu's cannot be used for window switching, but that's what the launcher is for anyway. I think the behavior of the top panel will be easier to understand as it now only merges the "titlebar with menu inside" exactly like it's seen on the window. I hope you'll understand my idea, but for a visual thinker I've included a mockup http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286396/Ubuntu/menubuttons.png

Thanks in advance for considering it.

Renze van der Kamp

On 04/15/2011 05:45 PM, Christian Mackintosh wrote:
(...) As far as I'm concerned the only sensible solution is this: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/unity-mockup-menu-integrated-in-window.html , which I will keep banging on about because it's so brilliant. (...)
Christian Mackintosh