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
On 5/18/11, Niklas Rosenqvist 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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