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[Renze van der kamp <renzevanderkamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list,

First of all I don't have Unity installed currently and I'm not a native
English speaker but I'd like to share an idea I've had. I'd like to discus
combining the mockup I've quoted and the menu button as seen in the youtube
video (and Firefox 4 on Win7). If we make the windowtitle of the window a
button on all floating windows we achieve the goal of decluttering the
desktop and it doesn't get into the mess of trying to put a whole menubar
inside a tiny titlebar for small windows and it'll leave room for dragging
the window. It doesn't require a click on the window to make it focused and
then going back to the top panel to select an option (something I find
myself doing all the time on osx). This means that it only requires an extra
click on already focused windows.

There is another advantage if multiple windows are maximized. I don't need
to know which window is maximized and focused, I should recognize it from
the content displayed in the window itself covering my whole screen.
Therefore we could display the menubuttons of all maximized windows next to
each other on the panel exposing the menu of the hidden maximized window and
at the same time provide information on which windows are lurking beneath
(probably going from left to right in order of being maximized (or opened),
like tabs). These menu's cannot be used for window switching, but that's
what the launcher is for anyway. I think the behavior of the top panel will
be easier to understand as it now only merges the "titlebar with menu
inside" exactly like it's seen on the window. I hope you'll understand my
idea, but for a visual thinker I've included a mockup
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286396/Ubuntu/menubuttons.png .

Thanks in advance for considering it.

Renze van der Kamp

On 04/15/2011 05:45 PM, Christian Mackintosh wrote:

(...) As far as I'm concerned the only sensible solution is this:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/unity-mockup-menu-integrated-in-window.html ,
which I will keep banging on about because it's so brilliant. (...)

Christian Mackintosh