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Ideas in development Here are the ideas about Unity that are currently being implemented for the Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin release.

Scrollbars in Unity are too thin and fiddly to use  
Written by turbolad the 12 Jan 12 at 02:14. In development
The scrollbars in Unity are too thin and this makes them *very* fiddly to use because it's hard to position the mouse pointer onto the scrollbars. Attempts to move the mouse pointer over these thin scrollbars means you can easily miss and end up too far left or right of the scrollbar itself.

This problem is even worse with some brands of computer mice which operate very fast when plugged in!
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Selected solution (#1): Make scrollbars slightly wider
Written by turbolad the 12 Jan 12 at 02:14.
If the scrollbars are wider and a standard width, it makes them easy to use without trying to accurately aim the mouse pointer and often missing the target.
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Selected solution (#2): Make a configuration option for the scrollbar width
Written by Snicksie the 17 Jan 12 at 08:17.
As some people like wider or smaller scrollbars, it should be useful to create an option to choose the width yourself. When you usally don't use the scrollbar (but the scrolling option from your mouse or touchpad) you might even like to have it as small as possible.
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Selected solution (#3): Have the wider scroll bar appear when scrolling
Written by insub2 the 23 Jan 12 at 06:50.
Borrowing from the common touch interface, have the wider bar appear when scrolling if more precision is needed.

Scrollwheels and trackpads are ubiquitous enough, right?

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One-Place Option to manage Unity lenses  
Written by sanjayasanju the 18 Jan 12 at 15:57. In development
Unity is gaining much popularity over GNOME and so are Unity Lenses, With the Advent of so many Unity Scopes and lenses it would be rather helpful if One-Place Manage for Unity lenses be done
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Selected solution (#1): Solution To the above
Written by sanjayasanju the 18 Jan 12 at 15:57.
Some addition to CCSM or Confity could solve the problem

See the 7 comments or propose a solution >>

Unity Notification Center  
Written by Lorenzo Woodley the 13 Dec 11 at 13:16. In development
What would be great for future versions of unity would be an active notification center that ties in all the apps available for Ubuntu...Much like Android,iOs,and Windows "Action Center" I and most likely other user often experience an odd and uncomfortable lag in the notification blob... it will sit there on the top corner unobtrusive until you try to interact with it and that is when the problems arise whether it be from a broadcast update or another applet it will remain there longer as an opaque addition to the screen
.Instead i suggest a small applet that springs open"like an app that need attention on the unity bar" that can easily be dismissed and viewed later in one place
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Selected solution (#1): Notification Spotlight applet+Notification center
Written by Lorenzo Woodley the 13 Dec 11 at 13:16.
A slide down menu that minimizes interruption from notifications
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Selected solution (#2): Notifications lens
Written by romusking the 14 Dec 11 at 01:45.
There are twitter lenses already, so creating a system-wide notification lens wouldn't be hard and it could be useful.

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Make an easier way to configure 3 or 4 monitors  
Written by xavirp the 2 Dec 11 at 09:19. In development
Actually, nowadays I'm using an old version of Ubuntu (10.04), since it's the latest one which I can configure both nvidia cards in and its respective 2 monitors. These settings must be set on the nvidia-settings app. The main problem is the null support with unity or gnome-shell, supposed to be because of the old incompability between Xinerama and Composite. I'm only able to arrange a non-composite desktop with 2 twinviews, so maximize the windows will occupy 2 monitors. It would be useful to have the possibility to maximize in one or two monitors. I don't know how to do it and where the problem comes from, but these are my needs.
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Selected solution (#1): Make Xinerama and Composite work together
Written by xavirp the 2 Dec 11 at 09:19.
I don't know what is the reason (supposed a technical design problem) but an approach would be to make both these components work together. It won't solve the maximize problem, but it would be an start point.

Maybe wayland will solve this?

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Using multiple monitors is difficult because application menu access is minimal   forum
Written by Jebeld17 the 5 Nov 11 at 15:34. In development
Canonical and the community need to find a solution for people that use their computers for business and productivity to have quick menu access for windows on a multi-monitor setup AND windows that aren't currently active.
There are several problems with the current application menu system used in 11.10, as well as 11.04, and 10.10 Netbook Edition: The user can only have one application menu open at once and the top bar doesn't stretch to the next screen on a multiple monitor setup, which means the user has to go to the default #1 monitor in order to access the application menus, which can be annoying to the user, and waste quite a bit of time in the long run.

PS: It's a lot of the "big things" (like OS crashes and major annoyances) that matter in making Ubuntu an easy-to-use, efficient desktop OS or not, but a whole bunch of little things (like application menus and minor annoyances) can be worse than one, two, or even three big things. It is my duty to take on these challenges, one-by-one, as I see fit. If we, the Ubuntu community, take on all the challenges we possibly can, including big and small, we will see a much nicer, efficient, fast, stable, usable Ubuntu for everyone.
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Selected solution (#1): Create a permanent menu access button for all windows and extend top bar
Written by Jebeld17 the 5 Nov 11 at 15:34.
I am proposing that all windows have full global menu support (like now, but with LibreOffice global menu as well), and all windows that aren't full screen have the same thing PLUS a quick menu button in a corner of the window, similar to how Firefox's menu works in Windows 7 and some Ubuntu machines with correct configuration. I am also proposing that (at least) the top bar be extended to be shown on all monitors, unlike now. This will make navigating lots of windows, especially on a wide canvas, a bit faster, helping out the core and business users the most. Have one active window per monitor, and each has a global menu on their own monitor open when the window is active.

By "global menu," I mean the menu for all active windows be on the very top bar of the screen.
A "quick menu button" features all the applications menus in one little button. You click on it and a drop-down list appears.
Here is how the Firefox menu button works: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Menu%20Reference

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