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[supernova <supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that Ubuntu could really improve if the side bar was filled
with icons of menù as Accessories, Office, System, and not
favorites...
if the Dash opened under each icon of menù going to the respective
environment, and only there...
the actual Dash is difficult to use, and i think that will not be
integrated in my phone easly. And moreover...the horizontal bar is
completely out of the future of Desktops...leave it to Gnome3...in
Ubuntu is obsolete, something for pc's and not for tablet or phones...
if Ubuntu should really go under vertical integration, it is my
personal opinion that these minor changes should happen...

Supernova

2011/10/3 Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Robin Gloster wrote on 03/10/11 15:26:
>>
>> ...
>> Haven't used Mac much, so I have a question:
>> How do they manage to get the menus all accessible if they are wider
>> than in Ubuntu?
>> I've had applications in which I couldn't reach all of the menus
>> because of a small screen size on my netbook and many menus?
>> On bigger screens there aren't those problems as far as i know. I
>> could only reach the other menues by using the keyboard which
>> shouldn't happen.
>
>>...
>
> There is almost always enough room to show all menus in Mac OS for three
> reasons.
>
> First, Mac OS has always had a global menu bar, so application developers
> have always known that their menus could have only one row, and have tested
> them to ensure they fit.
>
> Second, there never has been (and probably never will be) a Mac netbook.
> Even the smallest MacBook Air has a minimum pixel size of 1024*768, and the
> font size is not configurable. (It used to be, but even then it was only in
> a test tool for developers.)
>
> Third, a Mac OS installation usually has fewer, and narrower, status menus
> than an Ubuntu installation does. It puts search in a Spotlight menu, but it
> doesn't have anything like the messaging menu or device menu, all the other
> menus can be turned off (several of Ubuntu's currently can't be), and its
> equivalent to the user menu is off by default. (Ubuntu's user menu has to be
> always visible to provide access to "Log Out".) And its Dock is usually
> visible, so status can more often be presented in a Dock icon rather than in
> a status menu.
>
> --
> mpt
>
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