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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mac OS X's application Help menu is extremely handy, searching for (and pointing out) any action within an application's title bar menu as-you-type. Even better? It's keyboard-shortcut handy, and as ...

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 ...

Ubuntu 15.04, code-named Vivid Vervet, launches today and it’s bringing the controversial systemd project along with it. The first difference you’ll notice about Ubuntu’s desktop are its “locally ...

While the menu extras in OS X are convenient, sometimes they can be occluded by the application or system menus. Here are some ways to manage them to prevent this from happening. Topher Kessler ...

[Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...

Ubuntu Unity 22.04 is a Linux desktop distribution that’s as productive as it is elegant Your email has been sent I have a confession to make. Back when Canonical created its own desktop called Unity, ...