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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: 1) by aos on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:23PM

    by aos (758) on Sunday February 23 2014, @05:23PM (#5232)

    From what I can gather then, it sounds like you use the mouse a lot more than me. From that perspective, I think I can agree that the mouse experience is degraded compared to what I recall from the Gnome 2 days.

    As I have grown older, I've avoided the mouse more and more; lifting my hands from the keyboard breaks up the workflow. I find it has also helped reduce strain in my arm because my arms are properly supported by the chair arm rests with the keyboard. When I want to switch apps, I use alt+tab rather than going to the Unity launcher, and wait a brief moment for the app group to expand if I use multiple windows/instances. When I want to open a new app, I hit the "Windows" key and type part of the name. Same thing with switching workspaces, ctrl+alt+arrows.

    I wonder if the preservation of the keyboard usability was intended or just an accident ;).