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This is one thing that I'm very glad Unity does - it removes those menubars and has a global menu like OS X. Saves so much screen space.

by vito 16y ago

rbanffy 16y ago
I think the global menu would be a huge nuisance on a multihead setting.
- bilban 16y ago
  I was looking at the notification-osd guidelines yesterday. And in it there was an idea of your notifications moving to the screen that is selected. The way they determined this was a bit odd. I'd certainly want to change where they appeared. And I'd like a CLI equivalent, but I digress. I abandoned multi-monitors in the end, because I got sick to death of the lack of keyboard control and the unpredictable nature of applications in that environment. Too many assumptions, like me having both monitors turned on. I'd rather think in workspaces, and be able to group apps to a workspace, or shift the menus easily to the one I was using. I'm sure there are ways around it.
- calloc 16y ago
  Personally the amount of times I need to use a menu and thus need to go up to the top menu bar are slim to none. Mostly when hunting for some option in Preview. Ultimately I am a command line user overall, so keyboard shortcuts and commands are my bread and butter. I can't remember the last time I really needed the menu bar for something, so even on my dual monitor (laptop, and external screen) MacBook Pro I really don't care where the menu bar is located.
bilban 16y ago
I prefer the way Apple does the UI. I tried the netbook release 10.04 for a week on older hardware; in the end, I felt like I had to jump through another hurdle to get to an application - what I mean is that it was a two step process through the global menu. Dialogues end up a bit messy. It felt half way there - I'm glad though that Ubuntu are at least trying something different. I removed my top panel by accident in Gnome yesterday, and was thinking about abandoning it, but I placed it back, mainly for the date and time and system resources widget thing - that I like to keep an eye on in case XYZ app gets out of control. Notification icons are useful, but they should complement proper applications. How do you select wireless networks in Gnome without the wireless icon thing? I'm one of those that starts to flail if I can't do it on the command line, let alone some system menu.
pyre 16y ago
IIRC, it's long been possible to patch GNOME/Gtk to do this (and such patches exist).

This is one thing that I'm very glad Unity does - it removes those menubars and has a global menu like OS X. Saves so much screen space.

by vito 16y ago

This is one thing that I'm very glad Unity does - it removes those menubars and has a global menu like OS X. Saves so much screen space.

rbanffy 16y ago

I think the global menu would be a huge nuisance on a multihead setting.

bilban 16y ago
I was looking at the notification-osd guidelines yesterday. And in it there was an idea of your notifications moving to the screen that is selected. The way they determined this was a bit odd. I'd certainly want to change where they appeared. And I'd like a CLI equivalent, but I digress. I abandoned multi-monitors in the end, because I got sick to death of the lack of keyboard control and the unpredictable nature of applications in that environment. Too many assumptions, like me having both monitors turned on. I'd rather think in workspaces, and be able to group apps to a workspace, or shift the menus easily to the one I was using. I'm sure there are ways around it.
calloc 16y ago
Personally the amount of times I need to use a menu and thus need to go up to the top menu bar are slim to none. Mostly when hunting for some option in Preview. Ultimately I am a command line user overall, so keyboard shortcuts and commands are my bread and butter. I can't remember the last time I really needed the menu bar for something, so even on my dual monitor (laptop, and external screen) MacBook Pro I really don't care where the menu bar is located.

bilban 16y ago

I prefer the way Apple does the UI. I tried the netbook release 10.04 for a week on older hardware; in the end, I felt like I had to jump through another hurdle to get to an application - what I mean is that it was a two step process through the global menu. Dialogues end up a bit messy. It felt half way there - I'm glad though that Ubuntu are at least trying something different. I removed my top panel by accident in Gnome yesterday, and was thinking about abandoning it, but I placed it back, mainly for the date and time and system resources widget thing - that I like to keep an eye on in case XYZ app gets out of control. Notification icons are useful, but they should complement proper applications. How do you select wireless networks in Gnome without the wireless icon thing? I'm one of those that starts to flail if I can't do it on the command line, let alone some system menu.

pyre 16y ago

IIRC, it's long been possible to patch GNOME/Gtk to do this (and such patches exist).