I don't know if they spoke about it at UDS since I wasn't attending and I myself don't think that the global menu improves anything except less desktop clutter, but at the cost of making it crippled. And I think that both Fitt's law and Steering law may be applicable since both laws are used for human-computer interaction.
2011/5/19 Ralph Green <sira...@gmail.com> > On 5/18/11, Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your thoughts Ralph! That statement you quoted was just after > the > > 11.04 release and since then I've completely changed my mind about the > > global menu bar which you can see in more recent discussions. Though > there > > have been some proposed solutions to the menu bar problem together with > > large monitors: > > Niklas, > What a relief. I stayed away from the lists since I started using > Unity. My impressions of it were so bad that I thought I needed to > force myself to give it more time for a fair chance. After more than > 2 months, I thought it was time. I am glad to see that there is > active discussion and the topic has not been shut off. I spent the > last hour going through lots of Ayatana email. I am now curious about > 3 things. > 1. Did any decisions get made at UDS about the global menu for Oneiric? > 2. MPT seems to think the global menu is quicker, even on large > screens. That is certainly not my experience. My screen is not even > that large. It is a 1600 by 1200 pixel 20 inch LCD. If I had a 30 > inch screen, like I keep reading about, the problem would be much > worse. I measured the distance I have to go and find that it is > typically 4 to 8 times as far to get to the global menu. Since the > time scales roughly as log to the base 2 of the distance, it takes 2.5 > times as long. It also requires me to pick up the mouse an extra time > or two because I ran out of mousable area on my desk, which makes it > more than 2.5. It is much quicker to use a menu in the app. The > question is how typical am I? > 3. Why do people keep referring to Fitt's law. It does not apply to > 2 dimensions, as best as I can tell. Shouldn't the discussion be > about steering law? > Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > 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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