Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

Posted Apr 14, 2011 21:17 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04 by ovitters
Parent article: Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

Sorry, I meant "Ubuntu dev lists", not Gnome.

The problem with FFM is not about enabling/disabling it, it's about the single-menu-per-screen feature, inherited from Mac.

If you put the menu for the focused window at the top of the screen, not attached to the window that has focus, you destroy FFM capability: you (often) can't mouse to the menu of your current window without crossing some other window... which is then focused by FFM and now the menu at the top of the screen changes to that second application.

Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

Posted Apr 15, 2011 1:53 UTC (Fri) by mrons (subscriber, #1751) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks for that! Now I understand the problem.

So would the "fix" for FFM be something like, disable FFM while the shift key is held down?

Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

Posted Apr 15, 2011 4:52 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

> So would the "fix" for FFM be something like, disable FFM while the shift
> key is held down?

The solutions mentioned in the Launchpad bug (delaying the change of menu for FFM until focus has settled on a given window for some amount of time for example) would seem better to me than having to remember to hold down a key while mousing.

Personally I'd prefer the ability to disable the global menu altogether. I really do think that for screens of reasonable size it will end up being more of a problem than a benefit. But, who knows? I've certainly been wrong before.