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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 08:16, Saleel Velankar <svelanka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The global-menubar fails for these reasons.
> 1. Confusion on which application the menu is for.
> 2. Having to move the mouse an obscene amount


3.  Breaking focus-follows-mouse.

Maybe this is just another inconsistency. To me it seems like when the
window is maximized, we want the "window titlebar", with its controls and
title, to be *inside* the panel, and that's also where we're putting the
menu. If the invariant condition here is "the menu goes with the title and
controls", than it really would seem more consistent to have the menu-bar
in/near the title-bar for non-maximized windows, whether as a traditional
menubar, a menu-bar-in-titlebar, or a menu button. Each has some advantages
and disadvantages.

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