On Oct 27, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Daniel Silva wrote: >when working with multiple, unmaximized windows, something I always feel when >using Mac OS X (specially when I want to open a menu item of a non-focused >window: in these cases I have to click the titlebar of the app, *then* access >the global menu. I'm using the global menu on the normal desktop in Maverick. One thing that would help a lot is to include the application name to the left of the application menu (e.g. left of "File"). I think the old globalmenu package did this, and OS X does this, but afaict, indicator-applet-appmenu doesn't. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/658592 The second thing is that some windows only sensibly maximize vertically (e.g. 80 character wide terminals or Emacs windows), and there a global menu rocks because it wastes less vertical real-estate. Third, it would be helpful if application focus switching via Alt-Tab were application-centric not window-centric. What I mean by that is that if I have two Emacs windows open, or two mail windows open, Alt-Tab should cycle among applications and not individual windows. Choosing the application would bring all of its windows forward, with the stacking order remembered from the previous time the application was focused. Then Alt-` toggles between the application windows. I'm sure there will be lots of opinion and debate about stuff like this, but I actually think that OS X gets it just about right, at least for a "normal" desktop where real-estate is less constrained. -Barry
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