-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote on 13/01/11 21:40: >... > I have seen the 10.10 netbook and 11.04 Alpha, Unity dock is a big > improvement but I think global menu is not a good idea with the > following reasons. (At first I though it was a modified gnome panel) > > * Panel-based OS certainly not work for touch OS because : > o panels take precious horizontal space of a widescreen and > it's not match for vertical either. A small panel at the > edge of screen is really hard to touch it precisely and > increasing the size is just wasting screen space.
Ubuntu's multi-touch framework allows for occasional touch gestures, and provides one of the ingredients for a touch OS. But Ubuntu is not a touch OS. If anyone did make a good touch OS based on Ubuntu, it would not have a small panel at the edge of the screen (or at least, not one with multiple target areas), for the reasons you give. > Especially for netbooks with 1024x600 screen resolution. Netbooks are not touch devices either. Some netbooks may have touch screens, but expecting people to use a vertical touch screen for any substantial period would be disregarding how human arms work. > o This will just follow the Microsoft Windows 7 mistake, it > sucks on netbook with touchscreen. I have tried both Unity > and Windows 7 on Lenovo S10-3 and I barely use touch screen > because it's so annoying when you miss a touch. What will > happen if small Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons went on the > top edge ? Any sensible touch-based OS would not have Close buttons, Minimize buttons, or Maximize buttons. That has nothing to do with where the menu bar is in a pointer-based OS. > * Implementing global would be worthy if it had been done a few > years ago but doing it now is out-of-date since touchscreen is > coming. If the aim is to persuade the users from Mac with the > similar interface with a plus of a Unity dock then this is a big > mistake (I just guess for the reason, may be I'm wrong), in > contrast Ubuntu users that affordable for a Mac would go for it. > Ubuntu would be compared as a second class product that following > around the successors. >... We're using a unified menu bar in Ubuntu not "to persuade the users from the Mac with the similar interface", but because we think it's the best way of presenting menus in a pointer-based interface. A pointer-based interface takes advantage of screen-edge targets (like the menu bar), compact controls (like menus), and tooltips (as in the Unity launcher). A touch-based interface takes advantage of flicking (like for scrolling), and complex drags (like twisting to rotate an object). They are very different things, and a design that works well for one will hardly ever work well for the other. Cheers - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk01zYYACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpZrACgsjPk+hYY+lvWkw5aW2Cl09W+ L2sAoKd2Rc4G8Sv7JEyfr07EGCvbxo+5 =SmO+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
