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[Michael Doube <1371590@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops - spoke too soon. Bug still present. Seems to be not quite 100%
reproducible - correct behaviour occurs for some programs and some
window configurations (maximised vs windowed), and possibly depending on
how many programs have been opened since boot.

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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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