Canonical has come up with a replacement for the global menu bar, one of the most notable features of Ubuntu's Unity desktop and also one of its most problematic.The global menu bar places application ...

After our recent article that discussed some confusion Windows switchers might have with closing windows versus quitting applications in OS X, another key difference that a few people have mentioned ...

There’s a major change coming to the Unity interface this April when Canonical releases Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr: Application menus are going back into their separate windows instead of existing in a ...

I have the scripts menu enabled, and use it quite a lot. I have application specific scripts in folders in the scripts folder of my library. These show up at the bottom of the general script menu when ...

Patently Apple reports on a newly-published patent application from Apple coming out of the European patent office and revealing user interfaces offering scrollable menus and toolbars designed to ...

When we met the Finder a few weeks ago, you learned that OS X offers a menu bar, as well as menus to populate it. In one of the many instances of “we’ll discuss this at a later time,” I mentioned that ...

Trevisan claimed that "having the applications menus in the top pane really worked very well in small screens but now, especially with HiDPI monitors getting more and more popular, the top panel could ...

We've already seen a couple of different patents from Apple this week, and it doesn't look like the Cupertino-based company is slowing down any time soon. This time around, Apple is focusing on ...

The macOS menu bar is fixed to the top of the screen and spans its entire width. At the top left is the Apple menu, which houses system functions. Next you’ll see the name of the current app, and its ...