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kef writes "According to a blog post from the Unity desktop team, Ubuntu 14.04 will move the application menus back into the application windows, starting in Unity 7. Spread improvements, HighDPI support, new decorations, and the usual bug-fixes are also making it into the new LTS release. Is Unity starting to grow up?"
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Locally Integrated Menus Arriving in Ubuntu 14.04
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by gottabeme on Sunday February 23 2014, @02:34AM
Look, on a desktop monitor, and especially with multiple monitors, a global menu may not make much sense.
But on my laptop, which has a lower-resolution screen than my tablet and my phone (yet more vertical pixels than many new laptops!), I really, really want the global menu. I use KDE and use the "Menu" button in my panel. It's great. I don't need menus that often anyway, and vertical space is precious!
Quit being choiceophobic. Let people choose what works best for them. Stop pulling the rug out from under people.
I've used Ubuntu full-time on my laptop since 8.04 Hardy, but I sense a return to Debian in my future (though I've been saying that for a few years now).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lgw on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:06AM
I've never gotten the hang of Unity. I keep getting the feeling that I can't configure the taskbar the way I'd like to simply because they won't allow the option to look like Windows. C'mon guys - choice is good!
I hear good things about Debian + Mint. I keep meaning to play with that. Anyone have a Minty opinion?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Sunday February 23 2014, @04:35AM
I prefer Mint with KDE. I do not use Unity; tried a few times, never liked it. For me, Unity killed Ubuntu.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Sunday February 23 2014, @11:09AM
While we're at it, if Unity and Gnome Shell are trying to save vertical space, why do they force the panel to be stuck at the top of the screen? I tried it when I used Gnome shell, and it's acceptable, but I far prefer to have a panel at the left side of my screen. I did it even back when I used Windows 95. It works quite nicely in KDE, Xfce, etc. Those vertical pixels are at a premium, even with multiple monitors.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:22PM
I agree fully. But the fanaticism with which they try to reduce complications by reducing choices requires them to choose for you and stuff it down your throat.
Meanwhile Windowmaker still works great.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Ambient Sheep on Monday February 24 2014, @02:24AM
If you look at the video in the article, it shows you that you absolutely DO have the choice. There's a switch that lets you choose between Local and Global menus. What's not to love?
I've hated Unity in the past but this at least shows they are listening, and by giving you the choice, they've not pulled out the rug from under you at all.
Does it still have the madly-annoying disappearing-and-reappearing scrollbars in the latest version? If not, then I might consider going back to it... that to me, even more than global menus, was what I hated most, the inability to do page-up/page-downs by clicking elsewhere on the scrollbar, because it kept vanishing.