Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by sid0 on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:21AM (#2402729)

What about applications like Firefox 4 that don't require full-blown menu bars? What about applications that want to try out alternative user interfaces (ribbon etc)? What about multi-monitor setups? What about high-resolution (1080p or higher) monitor setups? What about high-res multi-monitor setups, where you might have to move the mouse over 4000 pixels to get to the menu you're looking for?

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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by mnutt on Sunday April 03, 2011 @02:07PM (#2403358)

As a high-res monitor user, with proper mouse acceleration it's really not any harder to hit a menu item that is anchored to the top of the screen than it is to stop the mouse on a menu item 200px away.

The only issues I've seen are when I have a non-rectangular monitor configuration.

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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by Maascamp on Sunday April 03, 2011 @02:26PM (#2403397)

Proper mouse acceleration is a poor poor solution for the parents problem. I can't (physically can't) use a mouse that moves faster than a certain speed.

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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by jbellis on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:19PM (#2403740)

Firefox 4 removing the menu bar is a one-off attack on the same problem. Better to solve it once than require each application to come up with its own fix.

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Re:Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever by sid0 on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:11PM (#2404279)

I'm not sure what you mean. The space that Firefox 4 saves by removing the menu bar would just be wasted at the top of the screen.

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