Comment 648 for bug 532633

That would be great, if that won't break the consistence... but it does!
Sadly all non native gtk application have problems with globalmenu... wx
apps have an empty menu bar on their window while the actual menu moved
to the panel, others like oo & firefox simply doesn't care about
globalmenu, because they don't use any gtk widgets (only drawing
functions), and there are other problems, like freezes with acroread.

So that can't happen to globalmenu be default...

On 04/06/2010 04:43 PM, Alvin wrote:
> Yes! That is a great idea, Michael!
>
> Gnome global menu applet ( http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ )
> is a very good way of avoiding the problem of clicking Close when
> intending to open the File menu.
>
> I hope this can be made the default for the new button-paradigm-shifted
> themes.
>
> That would really clean up the windows and make even more room for novel
> interface experiments if that is what Canonical wants.
>
> I say, if Ubuntu is really going to change in the direction of Apple-
> like UI instead of Microsoft-like UI I welcome that wholeheartedly.
>
> What I do not like (or understand) is taking some bits from Apple
> (buttons) and some from Microsoft (menu) but without having any real
> reason behind it other than simply being different.
>
> Either Canonical needs to do real (and I mean REAL) user experience
> testing months before introducing dramatic UI changes. OR, they need to
> trust what other companies/organizations do and not be queasy about
> looking like an imitation.
>
> If Canonical thinks Apple has the best UI ideas, then grab those ideas, all of them, all at the same time!
> :-)
>
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