Re: [Ayatana] Fitts Law

[Mitja Pagon <mitja.pagon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- "Matthew Paul Thomas" <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two
> weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden
> menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons in a maximized window.
>
> They then concluded that the way to access menus was to hover over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons, and then move sideways. This was very
> slow, and didn't work at all in unmaximized windows.
>
> People were much faster at using LibreOffice's menus, which are not yet
> integrated into the global menu bar by default.
>

The question remains. Why, despite being a definite usability regression, is the menu still hidden? Who makes this decisions and why can't they accept the fact they are wrong in this case?

Cheers,
Mitja