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Locally Integrated Menus Arriving in Ubuntu 14.04

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 23 2014, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the community-feedback-at-work dept.
kef writes "According to a blog post from the Unity desktop team, Ubuntu 14.04 will move the application menus back into the application windows, starting in Unity 7. Spread improvements, HighDPI support, new decorations, and the usual bug-fixes are also making it into the new LTS release. Is Unity starting to grow up?"
 
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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday February 23 2014, @06:26AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Sunday February 23 2014, @06:26AM (#5094)

    I mentioned doing this on that other site about 5 years ago, and I think it';s a great idea, but I actually prefer what KDE has had for a while, and Gnome is starting to do with a button that drops the menu down. It's more intuitive. Of course, they could allow the menu display to be enabled by default, but I think I still like the button idea better.

    In general, anything is better than the ridiculous global menu idea. Yeah, you can get used to it, but if you have large or multiple monitors, it's a very bad design decision.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:10AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:10AM (#5117) Journal

    The global menu is a pretty nice thing on a screen with middling resolution like 1366x768, typical of most PC laptops. It's easier to aim at a menu item when it's at the top of the screen than if it's attached to a window. I can see though how it would not be optimal if one had multiple monitors or had a screen resolution much higher than 1920x1080: both are true of my office workstation.

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