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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Saleel Velankar wrote on 29/03/11 15:16:
>
> In a nonmaximized window on
> a. a large screen
> b. with other nonmaximized windows present
> 
> The global-menubar fails for these reasons.
> 1. Confusion on which application the menu is for.

This is a bug in the theme, not the layout. It affects not just using
the menus, but the keyboard too. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/534799>

> 2. Having to move the mouse an obscene amount

If it's an obscene amount, your pointer acceleration settings are wrong:
you'll have just as much trouble getting to the Ubuntu button, the
Trash, or the session menu.

> In my 1 + 2 = not nice behavior.
> 
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/menu-button-inside-window-decorations/
> 
> I have been reading this, and I think that the mockup provides a good
> compromise in non maximized windows. Thoughts?
>...

Not only would that -- like other single-menu designs -- be much slower
to use, it would also mean the menu structure changed fundamentally
depending solely on how big the window is, which would be bizarre.

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mpt
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