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This is probably the only netbook remix feature I want ported to the regular builds. Globalmenu is broken in subtle but dealbreaking ways, and getting a large

by leif 17y ago

This is probably the only netbook remix feature I want ported to the regular builds. Globalmenu is broken in subtle but dealbreaking ways, and getting a large part of the ubuntu team on it should sort it out so I can finally use it. I hope there's a reasonable path to including it in the standard desktop.

rbanffy 17y ago
As an option, please. It's really bad with big and multiple monitors.
natrius 17y ago
Netbook Remix is essentially just a different default panel layout, window manager and startup applications. Adding whatever widget to the panel that handles this to a normal Ubuntu install should be most of the effort required to use these changes on a normal install. It depends how it's implemented, though.
blasdel 17y ago
I don't think they could port this to the regular builds without it being even more broken than globalmenu. This is only attainable when all windows are always maximized like they are in Netbook Remix, especially in combination with their design choice of having the window title display there by default with the menu appearing on rollover/alt. This all works because they're using a custom (probably non-reparenting) window manager and can do whatever they want. This has the added bonus of potentially working with third-party apps that they can't diddle with the menus of — in this case they can just draw the window title decorator on top of the menus. They might even just take this approach all the time and avoid the globalmenu weirdness.
theBobMcCormick 17y ago
Ahem.. from the article: > However, it will be straightforward to use this on your desktop too, if you want, and we’d encourage people to try with that configuration. So yeah, it sounds like they're happy to have people experiment with this in the regular desktop edition, but they're not ready to commit to it in that edition yet.

by leif 17y ago

rbanffy 17y ago

As an option, please. It's really bad with big and multiple monitors.

natrius 17y ago

Netbook Remix is essentially just a different default panel layout, window manager and startup applications. Adding whatever widget to the panel that handles this to a normal Ubuntu install should be most of the effort required to use these changes on a normal install. It depends how it's implemented, though.

blasdel 17y ago

I don't think they could port this to the regular builds without it being even more broken than globalmenu. This is only attainable when all windows are always maximized like they are in Netbook Remix, especially in combination with their design choice of having the window title display there by default with the menu appearing on rollover/alt. This all works because they're using a custom (probably non-reparenting) window manager and can do whatever they want. This has the added bonus of potentially working with third-party apps that they can't diddle with the menus of — in this case they can just draw the window title decorator on top of the menus. They might even just take this approach all the time and avoid the globalmenu weirdness.

theBobMcCormick 17y ago

Ahem.. from the article: > However, it will be straightforward to use this on your desktop too, if you want, and we’d encourage people to try with that configuration. So yeah, it sounds like they're happy to have people experiment with this in the regular desktop edition, but they're not ready to commit to it in that edition yet.