Personally, I'd like the global menu to be optional. I have tried to use it in my desktop, and with any screen beyond 20" inches it becomes pretty annoying. Any application in a small window placed in the lower half of the screen becomes a problem. Any small windows placed in the right half of the screen becomes a problem. It takes an extra effort to discover if the menu you're accessing belongs to the app you want. In my oppinion, it's a step backwards, and if the problem was vertical space, why not rendering the menu on the top border of the window's chrome instead? The drawing package MyPaint has added recently (in its development version) an interesting concept, similar to Opera's menu button. AFAIK Gnome3's "global menu" uses a similar aproach (a single button with the name of the app that rolls down the menu bar, arranged vertically)
I wonder if that can't be rendered on the chrome instead of an exclusive menu bar when it's "windowed" and rendered on the global menu when maximized. The vertical space saved would be exactly the same. It's compatible with the window buttons position both in maximized and windowed states, it allows to display the entire name instead of that ugly small portion of the title faded out horizontally and wouldn't give problems even in a panel full of indicators in a small screen. What do you think? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
