Please, oh god PLEASE put menu bars at the top where they belong! The gnome panel needs an applet that sucks up the focused window's mneu bar and displays it. Oh yeha, and enforces the fact that things on teh gnome bar should hit the edge. Just this ONE change would make things better for most Mac users in a Gnome world. Ilan Volow wrote: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:29:46 -0600 > > From: Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com> > > Subject: Questions > > To: gnome-gui-list gnome org > > > > Hello all, > > > > As I have never posted to this mailing list nor have > > I followed it with > > more than passing glances, I'd like to answer a > > couple of questions, > > frequently-asked though they may be. > > > > First, I'd like to know what the general direction > > of the GNOME user > > interface is, or if this is already documented > > somewhere, where I could > > find that answer. > > > > Second, I have only seen the Quicktime demos of the > > new MacOS X user > > interface called Aqua and, given Apple's expertise > > in user interface > > design, I was wondering if GNOME designers have > > thought about using it > > as a model? (A model is not the same as a clone.) > > Or does Apple have > > have patents/trademarks/etc. that restrict use of > > these new user > > interface techniques on the GNOME platform? > > Answering questions one and two, I am forking GNOME > and I am using MacOS as a model. Yes, I keep saying > this on the list but the code will emerge some day on > Freshmeat.net. It won't necessarily be a linux "Aqua", > but rather a GNOME from a parallel universe that was > based on MacOS conventions as opposed to those from M$ > Windows. But I will add a new wrinkle or two here and > there. > > > Lastly, will the GNOME user interface "reinvent the > > wheel" or reuse > > existing and proven models? > > What both KDE and GNOME have been doing (and still are > doing, as far as I know) is blindly copying someones > existing square wheel design that was ripped off from > someones proven round wheel design (not that I'm > against moving past the wheel, but if you're going to > make a wheel, you should do it the right way). Taking > this into account, I'm not really surprised by all the > crashing and burning that's been going on around > desktop linux in the last week or two. After all the > stupid UI design decisions I've seen, I really saw > this coming. Especially in the case of Mandrake. > > --Ilan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-gui-list mailing list > gnome-gui-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-gui-list
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