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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:27, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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>
>
>
Except that's missing design work too. There's no concept of the "active"
window anywhere. There's no visual cue of what the "active" window is. Until
that article, the concept didn't exist. It's inconsistent, because the
window that you might be working with is no longer the window that "has" the
global menu. Imagine that you have 2 windows that don't overlap, and you've
focused one by mouse-over. There's now *zero* indication that the global
menu isn't related to the focused window. Select a destructive action like
File:Revert or Delete is now a very scary and unpredictable concept.

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