Re: Unity breaks basic UI principles

On 04/28/2011 10:30 AM, gvim wrote:
I just upgraded to 11.04 and I can't believe how bad the new Unity
desktop is. Apart form being buggy the design breaks fundamental UI
principles, the most obvious being that I should be able to see menu
items in application windows without mousing over the title bar.

It's actually worse than that... you won't even get the menus unless you
expand the window to full screen at first start. If you do resize the
Image window, the menus remain on the top desktop panel so you have to
mouse out of the image window just to get to the menus.

Furthermore I can't grasp what Ubuntu think they've gained by hiding
menu items like this. It doesn't even save space. When I open GIMP
for image editing instead of hitting a menu item directly I now have
to first mouse over the title bar and then locate the menu. 2 steps
where there was 1. How is that progress?!#@

:-)
...

'Ubuntu Classic' at the login menu.


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