It's been a while and I've been busy, but I did manage to spend a little time with my Aspire One today.
I realized that the one thing that botheres me more than anything in the (otherwise generally lovely) interface is the URL field. It should not be placed at the top where you risk activating the menu - and to make matters worse, you have to click the field to make it active after clicking the Internet icon.
In my humble opinion it would be wise to have the URL field be opposite of the menus - at the bottom of the screen - and have it slide off screen when it is not used (similar to the top menu). It's not what people are used to, but nor is the sliding menu placement in Moblin, and it would make sense.
Alternatively an icon could activate the URL field and have it slide out below the top menu.
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This is something that we looked at early on and it's something you'll see us coming back to as the interface gets smaller but for the netbook we really wanted the overlay effect where the moblin toolbar effectively replaces the application toolbar. This is just much more elegent and introduces the concept of toolbars and overlays in a more effective way.
SvarSletThe real problem here is that (especially on an Acer Aspire One due to trackpad issues) the moblin toolbar is too needy and is often accidently invoked. Fixing that is a big priorty for us right now and should make things better.
I agree that it's a bit of a dilemma. The real issue, I suppose, is that in operating systems where you usually have menus at the top of the screen, the menus are either triggered in a special way (right mouse button for instance) or applications stay below the menu area.
SvarSletIdeally the URL field would not be in the moblin toolbar area (in my preference the URL field would only be visible when necessary - I like all the reading space I can get on a screen this small).
An alternative way of fixing it would of course be putting a delay before the moblin toolbar is invoked, but I definitely think the costs far outweight the benefits there.