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[Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why does the global menu hide at all? Hiding it doesn't save a lot of
space, and it an can quite annoying.

-New users may have issues finding it
-A user may forgot an action like Edit -> Copy if the Edit menu isn't a
visual reminder
-I frequently make an L-shape as I hit the top of the screen, then move
the mouse to the menu i was looking for

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 13:18 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

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> Kevin Liao wrote on 12/04/11 14:48:
> >
> > Hi all, 
> > I've been wondering, the Global Menu debate has been very furious for a
> > while now. Proponents argue that Fitts Law is efficient. However,
> > Unity's implementation of the Global Menu is that it becomes a menu
> > when it is hovered over. Doesn't this mean that Fitts Law is rendered
> > invalid because the user is in a sense "blind" until the mouse hovers
> > over the menu?
> >...
> 
> It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two
> weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden
> menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons in a maximized window.
> 
> They then concluded that the way to access menus was to hover over the
> close/minimize/unmaximize buttons, and then move sideways. This was very
> slow, and didn't work at all in unmaximized windows.
> 
> People were much faster at using LibreOffice's menus, which are not yet
> integrated into the global menu bar by default.
> 
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