Ubuntu 11.04 - Returning to Gnome

[Andrej Marjan]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> On the other hand you just hit the top edge of the screen and you are
> there.  It worked great on the Amiga, and the Mac has always done it.
> To some extent everyone else has done it in a less efficient way.
> Why waste space for a menu bar in every window?  Of course the amiga
> had the menu bar hidden and only showed up when you hit the right
> mouse button.  The rest of the time it showed system status instead.
> I miss that.
>

It's very handy on smaller displays, and I used to use a top menu in KDE3.
The problem is, the higher the resolution, the farther your mouse has to go
to hit the menu. I found driving OSX with a mouse to be somewhat cumbersome
on really big monitors.

That reminds me - the KDE3 implementation was pretty hacky, and if one app
were to lock up, the menu container would lock up too, for all apps. Does
Unity have this problem or did they manage to cleanly separate the
out-of-window menu with GTK?
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