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[Mitja Pagon <mitja.pagon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- "Matthew Paul Thomas" <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> 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. 
> 

http://design.canonical.com/2011/04/unity-benchmark-usability-april-2011/ 

Is this the testing you were referring to? If so, how come there is no mention of the issues you raised above? 

Cheers, 

Mitja