Re: Fitts's Law, or do you _really_ know how to make a good UI?

[Geoff Reedy <vader21 imsa edu>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:58:25PM -0500, Damon McGraw <damon@watchland.org> said
> How much of a change would it be to allow the menu bar location to be
> configurable? I know that KDE does something along these lines, i.e.
> allows the user to configure applications to use a Mac-style menubar.
> Could Gnome?
> 

This will only work if all the applications the user uses are gnome/gtk.
This won't do anything for apps using the athena widgets or motif or any
other toolkit.  This would be very inconsistent, and people might blame gnome
for it.

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