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

["Stefanos A." <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew, I love your idea. With little twist:

- unmaximized windows get a menu "button" that displays (drops down?) the menu when clicked. This button should be on the opposite side of the close/maximize/minimize window buttons and should be large enobaleough to present a viable click target (see e.g. Opera or Firefox menu buttons). The titlebar retains its current functionality with regards to dragging and clicking.

- maximized windows embed their menus into the top panel, along with the close/max/min buttons.

Pros:

- retains the visual design of no text menus in regular windows (advantageous in small screens)

- retains the advantage of global menus for maximized windows

- allows focus-follows-mouse to keep working correctly

- this design has been tested and validated by several high-profile applications (e.g. Office, AutoCAD, Firefox, Opera)

- this can work in conjunction with global menus! 

Cons:

- won't work correctly on apps that draw their own borders (e.g. Chrome)

What do you think?