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Global menu

Global menu

Posted Oct 26, 2010 11:44 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670)
In reply to: Global menu by drag
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

The global menu is modal. It is often far from obvious that the wrong application has focus. Not good.

Also, I think that the graphical window interface lends itself well to lining up windows from different applications. This is hard or impossible when raise on focus works per application.


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