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[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

Read Jorge Castro / Neil Patel's reply, they are the guys working on this.
The blueprint isn't official (aside from being approved for discussion at
UDS) and doesn't mention the global menu.

Quote:

“*Yes, the Desktop version of Unity will use the global menu by default*.
There might be some added intelligence for multi-monitor setups, but I’m not
sure and there has been no design as yet.” ~ Jorge Castro

Luke.

On 1 November 2010 12:59, Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I don't mean to sound rude, but did you even read the answers to the link
> you posted?
> One of them shows this blueprint which wouldn't use the global menu for the
> desktop version.
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-desktop-n-specialized-unity-form-factor
>
> So it seems the desktop version would have room to innovate when it comes
> to the menu.  Do you have any particular ideas?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:04:46 +0000
> From: kazade@xxxxxxxxx
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ayatana] Global Menu on the Desktop
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> So I stumbled across this answer earlier:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/10481/does-will-unity-support-disabling-the-global-menu
>
> We are getting the global menu by default on the desktop edition. I'm
> actually overwhelmingly disappointed by this, there were actual logical
> reasons why the global menu existed in the Netbook edition. Likewise there
> are very real logical reasons why it makes little sense on a
> high-resolution, multi-window system.
>
> Like the window control position, monochome icons, OSX like side-dock,
> position of the me menu, identical location of the Ubuntu/OSX icon, purple
> colour scheme etc. We are again duplicating OSX instead of innovating.
>
> I'd love to hear the reasoning.
>
> So, so disappointed.
>
> Luke.
>
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