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Global menuGlobal menuPosted Oct 26, 2010 20:18 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Global menu by nix Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
...maybe your trackpad driver is broken or misconfigured? My trackpad uses cursor acceleration, just like a traditional mouse does.
If I drag my finger slowly all the way from one side to the other of the trackpad, I get maybe 20% across the screen. But if I move it quickly even halfway across the trackpad surface, the cursor moves all the way from one edge of the screen to the other. So it's just as easy to hit the side of the screen as it is with a mouse. Easier, perhaps, since you don't need to move your hand as far.
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Global menu Posted Oct 27, 2010 0:02 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> So it's just as easy to hit the side of the screen as it is with a mouse. Easier, perhaps, since you don't need to move your hand as far.
And then you have to go back to the app. Which is now far away and not at the edge which would stop you. So, when you accelerate, you cannot really hit that spot that you wanted easily.
Global menu Posted Oct 28, 2010 21:43 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
It's really designed for smaller screens where your apps are all fullscreened (as on Maemo like an earlier commenter stated)...
Global menu Posted Oct 31, 2010 12:18 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The problem is that trackpads are just too small. If I move my finger fast enough to cause acceleration, I have no control at all over where the bloody thing will end up. So I generally disable or at least drastically tone down acceleration.
If you run with acceleration on, maybe this is useful -- but then as far as I'm concerned the rest of the screen is much harder to reach (don't move your finger too fast! oops, now the mouse pointer is who-knows-where).
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