Re: Unity feature I'd like to see in Gnome-Shell

[Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM, John Stowers
<john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 14:04 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote:
>> I just downloaded unity/Ubuntu 11.04 and was playing with it.
>>
>>
>> One feature I really like is the application menu is in the top bar.
>> (ie: the File   Edit   View   Go   Bookmarks   Help)
>
> You mean the global menu? That horrible thing that confusingly
> appears/fades out when applications gain or lose focus and is on
> average, about 894 pixels from my mouse when working in an application?
>
> I certainly hope not.
>
>

The fact that the application menu only appears on mouse hover is a
problem with Unity. Ubuntu ships an applet for the traditional
gnome-panel that works much better.

Also, the idea of a global menu bar is that it's much closer to your
mouse than when inside an application window, as per Fitt's Law.

Cheers,
Evandro