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[Michael Doube <1371590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it's 100% reproducible. The global menu bar does appear, but only if
the mouse is a little bit (one pixel or so) away from the top, and not
right at the top of the screen.

The global menu bar menu items disappear when the mouse is pushed to the
very top of the screen and reappear when the mouse cursor is brought back
down.

It affects a multi-monitor setup on NVIDIA's proprietary drivers (Dell
T7600 with GTX 680) and my single-monitor laptop (Vaio SZ650) with really
old Intel GM965 open drivers. Both machines were upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04
LTS to 14.04 LTS.

On 22 September 2014 14:08, Andrea Azzarone <1371590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It works here. Is this 100% reproducible?
>
> ** Changed in: unity
>        Status: New => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: unity
>        Status: In Progress => Incomplete
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> Title:
>   Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows
>   95 Start button
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Title:
  Global menu bar snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, à la Windows
  95 Start button

Status in Unity:
  Incomplete
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There is a really old usability bug relating to mouse accuracy, which
  Ubuntu 14.04 has rediscovered in its global menu.

  Basically, it's super easy to move your pointer fast and hard to the
  extreme edge and corners of the screen, so you can hit targets placed
  there quickly. But the global menu only activates if the cursor is a
  pixel or two from the top of the screen. This is a massive usability
  bug.

  The example from the 90s (yes, 20 years ago) is that Win 95's start
  button was offset from the bottom left corner by a couple of pixels.
  That made it hard for people to hit, and if they'd only put it flush
  with the bottom left it would have been way way easier to click. Hence
  "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" - e.g. in this post from
  2000 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063.html

  Hopefully this is an easy fix: extend the mouseover activation area
  for the global menu to the top of the screen. Right to the top zeroth
  row of pixels. Please?

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