Perhaps a possibility would be to transition from local menu to global menu when the distance between the two would increase beyond some value ($X hundred pixels). On smaller or fullscreen netbook displays the top of the windows would always end up near the close to the top of the screen (the distance would be short).
But, on a larger screen and a window nearer the bottom, the menus would be attached to it. Such an approach might also serve to solve the multiple desktop paradigm; if the window was far enough away to be on a separate physical monitor it could then be transitioned to local menu. In this case when crossing the window boundary. The loss of vertical space would be zero for a full-screen window on a second monitor as the global menu/top panel real estate would be absorbed by the local menu attached to the window. A smooth transition would probably need implementing so that it is clear to the user what is happening (similar to snap alignment when the point reaches a certain threshold) and that it is reversible by recrossing the threshold. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683084 Title: Global menu doesn't work well with more than one screen -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
