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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 26, 2010 1:12 UTC (Tue) by duffy (guest, #31787)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by josh
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Global menus are also fail on OS X. AFAIK Apple has still not resolved this issue. It's fairly embarrassing.

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Posted Oct 26, 2010 1:46 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

Global menus were fine on a shoebox-style Mac with a 512 by 342 pixel, 9 inch screen. On a current iMac, with a 2560 by 1440 pixel, 27 inch screen – more than 20 times the number of pixels and nine times the area –, maybe not quite so. Not to mention that the current MacOS is more amenable to running more than one program at the same time, which way back when wasn't really a big issue.

Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 26, 2010 2:35 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Don't worry, Apple is fixing that -- the next version of OSX "Lion" is apparently going to have as a major new emphasis full-screen apps.

Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Posted Oct 26, 2010 10:27 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> Global menus are also fail on OS X.

My experience is that the global menu on Ubuntu is more usable than the OS X one (if you ignore a couple of bugs). The reason being the rather strange focus policy on the Mac, and the fact that applications stay alive (and with their menus active) after you close their last window - together these lead to the menu at the top often belonging to a different application than I (admittedly a Linux user, not a Mac one) tend to expect.