-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chad M. Germann wrote on 30/01/13 07:49: > ... >> >> 7. Burden of Proof >> >> http://design.canonical.com/2010/05/menu-bar/ From nearly three >> years ago. MPT has since admitted this implementation is not >> exactly as he detailed. No one has ever denied that. But there >> is a well-thought out rationale from someone in Canonical aside >> from Mr. Shuttleworth. Canonical also does proper user testing. >> Can you also make such a claim or are we to speak strictly in >> anecdote? > > I don't see anything in that link about the Global menu vanishing.
Yes, when I first saw that the menus were hidden, I reported it as a bug. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/732653> > gobla menu is ergonomically better it vanishing is not. And i would > love to see a full report of the user testing on the vanishing > aspect of the menu with information on the users tested. it is easy > to fudge a test with using the right samples. Usability testing has regularly shown people having difficulty in finding menu-only features since 2011. <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-April/002970.html> As far as I know, full results haven't been published for any of the Unity tests since then, though they have been summarized at UDS sessions once or twice. >> 9. HUD HUD was put out as a way for people to keep fingers on >> the keys in a natural way instead of contorting fingers for >> shortcuts (I assume). And works for that. But I'll come back to >> this shortly. > > except for the fact that hud suffers the same speed issues as the > dash but that is another topic all together. > > ... I may be biased because I seldom use the HUD. The first time I used it seriously was a couple of weeks ago, to find the "Resynthesize" command in Gimp -- and first I had to use Google to find out what the command was called! That much at least could have been solved by synonyms, so I could have searched for "content-aware fill" which is the Photoshop equivalent. But if I hadn't known that Gimp even *had* that command, the HUD wouldn't have helped at all. Now, Mark believes that the more advanced HUD he demoed at UDS will eventually solve that discoverability problem -- that first, people will realize that they can and should open the HUD, and second, it will reveal what functions a program provides, better than menus ever did. I disagree, though it's a polite disagreement. :-) But even if Mark was right, that wouldn't help the millions using Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 LTS, 12.10, or 13.04. And most Ubuntu applications -- even most default applications -- are developed primarily for HUD-less platforms, so it will be a challenge to get their developers interested. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlELvC4ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoz2gCfZcDXL8R4IDX+7v+heCYcEijH iE8An3FtNL3MjMtsRiINFEIjaJrH6Fw3 =fmrL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp