Where do you prefer your menus

[hawthornso23]

If there is space, then in a global menubar, if not I prefer them to be in the window decoration.

Isn't one of the purposes of a global menu supposedly to save space?

[forrestcupp]

Well, I just installed Ubuntu for the first time in a couple of years, so now I have an opinion.

My opinion is that having all of the app menus in the system panel royally sucks. It's confusing, and it takes the place of the system menus that are there when there isn't an app running. What if I want to access one of those system menus when I'm running a program? Instead, I have to try to navigate through the side panel.

[hawthornso23]

Thanks everyone who answered. Interesting result. Glad to see that it isn't just me then.

[Bachstelze]

Surprised by how few others answered "I don't care" because really, who cares where the menu is? I have better things to do than worrying about that.

[Paqman]

Surprised by how few others answered "I don't care" because really, who cares where the menu is? I have better things to do than worrying about that.

Well, he is polling the same community that chucked all it's toys out of the cot about switching the window buttons to the other side of the window.

The Linux community excels at raising a storm in a teacup.

[Tibuda]

I prefer then in a button like Chrome and Nautilus-Elementary.

[wizard10000]

We're having this discussion on my own forum right now in a Mac vs non-Mac thread

The *only* thing I have against MacOS is that I prefer my application menus in the application window instead of at the top of the screen. Too much mouse movement otherwise, but then I put my panel at the top of the screen. I think most people do most of their work in the top half of the screen anyway.

[LarsKongo]

Stick the menubar in a clear and visible button in the window decoration's top left corner. I love how Firefox and Opera do it in Windows. But also let me choose because choice is good.

[XubuRoxMySox]

In Openbox I just right-click anywhere on the desktop and the menu appears right there. Openbox lets me choose - every time.

-Robin

[bowens44]

Well, he is polling the same community that chucked all it's toys out of the cot about switching the window buttons to the other side of the window.

The Linux community excels at raising a storm in a teacup.

You can bet that the majority of us put them back on the 'right' side where they belong. Bad design is bad design. Moving the buttons and the menu is bad design.