Comment 25 for bug 683084

Sorry, what I meant by that was...

Say you are using an un-maximized window with the global menu disabled
because of a large or multiple screen set-up. You get used to the menu being
directly below where the window control buttons are. If you maximize the
window, one would normally expect the menu to still be below the buttons,
not to the right of them simply because of the size of the window was
maximized.. Doesn't seem natural, logical, or consistent on a normal desktop
to me..

That is all..

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Uli Tillich <email address hidden>wrote:

> @walogreg:
> Maximized windows merge with the top panel, so using global menu with them
> you have all your menus where you would expect them. (Except if it is on a
> second monitor, but that was discussed above and will hopefully be fixed)
>
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> of a duplicate bug (688460).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683084
>
> Title:
> Global menu doesn't work well with more than one screen
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Fix Released
> Status in Unity:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar?action=diff&rev2=27&rev1=26
>
> Desired fix:
> The menu bar should appear at the top of every screen, except those
> screens where a window is currently in full-screen mode. (The menu bars on
> different displays should not be mirrors, however; opening the “Edit” menu
> on one should not simultaneously open it on the others.)
>
>
> Original bug description
> ------------------------
> I currently have a dual-screen setup for work (I dock my laptop with the
> lid up and use that with an external monitor, which I don't think is an
> uncommon setup), and the global menu is quite difficult to use. It's made
> even more difficult for me, because I use focus-follows-mouse too.
>
> The global menu currently only ever displays on 1 screen (the left-
> most screen for me). This has a couple of issues:
>
> 1) For windows I have open on the right-most screen, I have to
> navigate a long way (to the screen with the global menu on) just to
> open the menu.
>
> 2) It really doesn't seem obvious to which window or application the
> global menu is actually controlling
>
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