Re: [Evolution] CVS Evolution: Mac-like interface

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk pp fishpool fi>]

On 23 May 2002, Not Zed wrote:

> Ahah!  Yes that is exactly it.
>
> You mac loving GUI designers please take note ... without the global
> context-sensitive menu bar (which personally I think is a great idea,
> AmigaOS had one too) you need to chuck on menu bars (and these days tool
> bars) and other crap which clutter the ui, but is still necessary,
> otherwise you end up with a non-functional app that is hard to use (even
> if its 'simple').

This, I agree with.

However, Linux is not a well-integrated GUI OS.  I suppose the next best thing
would be for the main Evolution window to provide those global menu features to
all modules it launches.

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