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[Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know if they spoke about it at UDS since I wasn't attending and I
myself don't think that the global menu improves anything except less
desktop clutter, but at the cost of making it crippled. And I think that
both Fitt's law and Steering law may be applicable since both laws are used
for human-computer interaction.

2011/5/19 Ralph Green <sirable@xxxxxxxxx>

> On 5/18/11, Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks for your thoughts Ralph! That statement you quoted was just after
> the
> > 11.04 release and since then I've completely changed my mind about the
> > global menu bar which you can see in more recent discussions. Though
> there
> > have been some proposed solutions to the menu bar problem together with
> > large monitors:
>
> Niklas,
>  What a relief.  I stayed away from the lists since I started using
> Unity.  My impressions of it were so bad that I thought I needed to
> force myself to give it more time for a fair chance.  After more than
> 2 months, I thought it was time.  I am glad to see that there is
> active discussion and the topic has not been shut off.  I spent the
> last hour going through lots of Ayatana email. I am now curious about
> 3 things.
>  1. Did any decisions get made at UDS about the global menu for Oneiric?
>  2. MPT seems to think the global menu is quicker, even on large
> screens.   That is certainly not my experience.  My screen is not even
> that large.  It is a 1600 by 1200 pixel 20 inch LCD. If I had a 30
> inch screen, like I keep reading about, the problem would be much
> worse. I measured the distance I have to go and find that it is
> typically 4 to 8 times as far to get to the global menu.  Since the
> time scales roughly as log to the base 2 of the distance, it takes 2.5
> times as long.  It also requires me to pick up the mouse an extra time
> or two because I ran out of mousable area on my desk, which makes it
> more than 2.5.  It is much quicker to use a menu in the app.  The
> question is how typical am I?
>  3. Why do people keep referring to Fitt's law.  It does not apply to
> 2 dimensions, as best as I can tell.  Shouldn't the discussion be
> about steering law?
> Ralph
>
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