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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 18/05/11 09:02:
>...
> There are also more situations where the global menu works like a
> crippled narwhal. E.g. when working with programs as GIMP. GIMP has
> one main application window and several smaller windows with tools
> and such and if you have one of the smaller windows active you can't
> reach the menu, even if they are a part of the same application. You
> must target the main window and then you can reach the menu.

That isn't an unfixable design flaw, it's just a bug.
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/646029> (I realize that to users, those two
situations are indistinguishable.)

Niklas Rosenqvist wrote on 19/05/11 10:15:
>
> 2011/5/19 Florian Diesch <diesch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>...
>> It's about impossible to use "focus follows mouse" and multiple
>> windows with the global menu, which makes it unusable for me.
> 
> This is a great example for when the global menu isn't such a great
> idea as everyone thought before Natty.
>...

That isn't correct. I specified how it could work with focus follows
mouse in May 2010, months before Natty even had a name.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#focus-follows-mouse>

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