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Re: [Ayatana] Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)

On 26. mai 2011 12:47, Adrian Maier wrote:

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:52, Ian Santopietro<isantop@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

But who said the majority of Ubuntu users don't like the global menu? It may
well be the case that the majority of users on this mailing list don't like
it, but it's been said before that this list is a small bias of users. There
*was* usability testing done on Unity with both 10.10 and 11.04. Not once in
the reports is disapproval of the menu voiced, in either version. So we
can't say the verdict is going either way.


You are right about the lack of verdict.  The fact that some people dislike
it   doesn't necessarily mean that the default behavior must be
immediately changed.

But there is a solution:    make the thing configurable



I was very sceptical about the global menu to begin with, but I gave it
a try and now I really like it. The only problem I see with it, is when you
hover the mouse pointer to focus windows. In that case, by the time
you reach the global menu, you'll most likely have focused another
window, causing the menus to change. This will force you to use the
keyboard to access the menus. So these things are not a good
combination. Other than that, I have no problems with global menus.
It does take a little time to get used to, but I think the benefits are
worth the effort.