*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 735233 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735233
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 682788
Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 735233
Option for persistent menus in AppMenu for focused application
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732653
Title:
Menus are hidden by default
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in Unity:
New
Status in Unity 2D:
New
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 beta
1. Log in to Unity, and try to connect to a server: "File" > "Connect to
Server".
2. Launch Firefox, and try to select an item from the "Bookmarks" menu.
What happens:
1. The "File" menu, and the rest of Nautilus's menus, are hidden by default.
- Unless you mouse over it, the menu bar is blank.
- When you mouse over it, the menus appear.
2. The "Bookmarks" menu, and the rest of Firefox's menus, are hidden by
default.
- Unless you mouse over it, the menu bar contains only the text "Firefox Web
Browser", which isn't useful at all (especially, but not only, since the real
name of the application -- "Mozilla Firefox" -- is already present in the
window title bar).
- When you mouse over it, the menus appear, partly but not completely
replacing the previous text: "Firefox W File Edit View…".
What should happen: Menus should be visible by default, so that you
can know that they exist without scrubbing the screen, and so that you
can see where a menu is each time you aim for it.
The current behavior has led some people (including, this week, one of
my design colleagues) to conclude that Ubuntu applications don't have
menus when they do. For example
<http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/gnome-shell-vs-ubuntu-
unity-which-desktop-wins/2291>: "One of the most handy menu entries in
GNOME (for me at least) is the Connect to Server entry in the Places
menu. This allows the user to connect to nearly any type of server
quickly and easily. The user can even connect to a Windows Share from
here. In Unity - you won’t find that. In fact, you will be hard
pressed to find any means to connect to a server in Ubuntu Unity."
In bug 720424, Jono Bacon reported that "when we did some developer
tools usability testing last week and on some other occasions when I
have had someone use Unity, I have noticed that some folks don't
realize there is a menu there as it is not visible."
This was confirmed by usability testing of Ubuntu 11.04, where 2 out
of the 10 people who needed to use a menu item could not find the
menus at all -- and of the 8 who did find them, 7 did so only when the
window was maximized. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
desktop/2011-April/002970.html (Usability testing results of Ubuntu
11.10 have never been published, but this part of the design did not
change.)
Do not confuse this bug with bug 735233 (about adding an option for
visibility) or bug 682788 (about reaching the menu on large screens).
Adding any options would not fix this bug, which is about the default
visibility.
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