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[Jake Tolbert <crazybilly@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using a global menu in Gnome (via
gnome2-globalmenu<http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/>)
for a couple years now. Because it doesn't work with a few applications
(Firefox and OpenOffice), I have a bit of experience with trying to use the
menu in two different places.

Simply put: it's confusing, mostly from a muscle-memory point of view. When
using the global menu, you ALWAYS expect the menu to be in the same place.
When it's not, it takes a little while to remember where it should be.

That said, I'm only one person, and I use the global menu on a small (14")
laptop screen, so my experience shouldn't be taken as universally
representative.

Jake






On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2010, at 05:23 PM, Oscar RdG wrote:
>
> >I am using the global menu indicator on maverick desktop for a week now,
> and
> >I love it. I have found out that I do not use very often the app menu so I
> >like it on the panel, far from the window app, even with the small
> >applications (eg. Empathy, Gwibber).
>
> With working keybindings, I would totally agree! :)
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/663030
>
> -Barry
>
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-- 
Peaces,

Jake