Comments on: gnome2-globalmenu - Global Menu Bar for GNOME

By: Peterson Espaçoporto

Peterson Espaçoporto — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:46:19 +0000

@airtonix

Sounds like a good reason.

By: airtonix

airtonix — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:22:03 +0000

@ RB, digitalSceptic, kenbw2 : then don’t install it. No one is forcing you to and conversly your opinion should not be something that prevents others from doing so.

@ Peterson Espaçoporto,
why? because thats like saying my couch looks like a a typical Vardingo Calcimo…

if you don’t know what that means then too bad…

but of course i could just say it has four legs and two arms and nice comfy cushions that allow for sleeping.

By: AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:51:34 +0000

@marcelobernard
That is a known bug for Global Menu 0.7.5. Using 0.7.8 Beta fixes the problems.

By: borgio3

borgio3 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:17:20 +0000

Nice, perhaps useful, and usable, but in my Jaunty don’t work.

Ciao

By: pqs

pqs — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:33:25 +0000

digi, it is obvious that you don’t use a netbook. by the way, do you think that everybody has dual screens??!!!

By: digi

digi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:17:24 +0000

Good for RSI

This may be good when you have a small screen, but now a days most desktop environments have large screens, or dual screen set ups. You’ll just add a lot more miles on your mouse.

By: ben2talk

ben2talk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:32:21 +0000

I used this in Jaunty - but it doesn’t seem to be available in Karmic, I added the PPA and tried an install, but the solutions to the problems are too numerous.

By: amyznikov

amyznikov — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:13:23 +0000

I am using many KDE apps in my Gnome desktop, but these apps are not handled. Also the FireFox and Thunderbird menus are not handled too. So, do you planning to handle these apps as well?

Thanks!
Andrey

By: RB

RB — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:24:00 +0000

This was/is one of the features I cannot stand about the Mac interface. I can see where it would be a nice feature for those who are used to the Mac interface and it may steal some of those users away. But for the market share that has to work in the Windows world, it is a major productivity killer as digitalSceptic pointed out.

By: digitalSceptic

digitalSceptic — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:44:39 +0000

Thats exactly why i dont like osx For multiscreen/multiwindow-setups its a pain to use. To reach menus of not-active windows you have to select window first, then move to panel… kills workflow

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:18:05 +0000

Ahh ok it is an applet^^

but does anyone know a shortcut for dropping the list of running application?

thx

Alexander

By: marcelobernard

marcelobernard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:53:56 +0000

Global menu panel applet caused all the gnome-system-monitor, Pidgin, Inkscape crashes/ failures to start on my system (karmic). Turning global menu applet off fixed the problems.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:14:56 +0000

Hi,
does anyone know how to use it? I intalled the software but i dont see (or find) any changes

Thx

Alexander

By: fredunderhill

fredunderhill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:50:40 +0000

for all you Karmic users, the Jaunty repository works, since there is not one for Karmic yet.

By: pezmanlou

pezmanlou — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:01:15 +0000

@kenbw2 It’s not like Ubuntu is going to start coming with this as a default configuration. Some people will get a kick out of this, and it seems to be a more efficient use of screen space.

By: kenbw2

kenbw2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:48:59 +0000

Because that’d be too close to admitting where Ubuntu is going these days. Getting unhappy with it personally

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:18:25 +0000

When are you going to release the 9.10 build?

By: Peterson Espaçoporto

Peterson Espaçoporto — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:16:18 +0000

“It works better(…)”, “It’s less confusing(…)”, “move toward a Document Centric(…)”

Why don’t you just say “it’s to look like MacOS”? =p

By: Joshua_Brighton

Joshua_Brighton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:29:06 +0000

Any clues on compatibility with Karmic?