Weird application menu behaviour

[Tom H]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 February 2014 22:45, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I have tried a lot of desktops in my time. Now it is Unity's turn. Last
>> was GNOME3, but I found it very buggy indeed. I will give Unity a
>> red-hot go :-)
>>
>> With the Compiz rotating cube and the Expo feature, I'm pretty happy
>> with it. so far. The menu thing was the only major irritation, and to be
>> honest I found that click-to-focus wasn't too bad after a while. But I'm
>> glad to be sloppy again.
>>
>> I've spent more time finding the perfect combination of skydome and
>> background images than anything else :-)
>
> OK, fair enough and well-said!
>
> I like it - I find it to be a good "poor man's Mac OS X" and it does
> some things notably better than OS X -- e.g. keyboard control and
> keyboard shortcuts.

A poor man's OS X is a good description of Unity; but not that poor. :)

And the keyboard shortcuts are definitely a plus (there's probably
freeware or shareware to replicate that on OS X - or you could mess
around with AppleScript).

My main reason for using Unity rather than Gnome Shell is that Unity
uses the screen real estate better because of the global application
menu.