+1 on this... the menu should never be hidden. It's very difficult and unintuitive to hide it. The window title should just push it over... even the "geniuses" designing OS X do it like that.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Lancey <a...@alexandos.org>wrote: > Why does the global menu hide at all? Hiding it doesn't save a lot of > space, and it an can quite annoying. > > -New users may have issues finding it > -A user may forgot an action like Edit -> Copy if the Edit menu isn't a > visual reminder > -I frequently make an L-shape as I hit the top of the screen, *then* move > the mouse to the menu i was looking for > > > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 13:18 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Liao wrote on 12/04/11 14:48: > > > > Hi all, > > I've been wondering, the Global Menu debate has been very furious for a > > while now. Proponents argue that Fitts Law is efficient. However, > > Unity's implementation of the Global Menu is that it becomes a menu > > when it is hovered over. Doesn't this mean that Fitts Law is rendered > > invalid because the user is in a sense "blind" until the mouse hovers > > over the menu? > >... > > It does. In the videos I watched of Charline Poirier's user test two > weeks ago, of the eight out of ten people who could find the hidden > menus at all, seven of them discovered the menus while mousing over the > close/minimize/unmaximize buttons in a maximized window. > > They then concluded that the way to access menus was to hover over the > close/minimize/unmaximize buttons, and then move sideways. This was very > slow, and didn't work at all in unmaximized windows. > > People were much faster at using LibreOffice's menus, which are not yet > integrated into the global menu bar by default. > > - -- > mpt > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk2tfaYACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrSbQCeL6RbZA+rHj7NMEhaPmJJT6If > H9gAnj3fTRXOwqwC3tA8rWI/1WXMsmtW > =4Qj1 > -----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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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