Re: Micro$oft-style dragable, resizable, stackable menu/button bars.

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

In the case of the addressbar, it may be best to not embed it in the
menubar.  The notion is to allow users to move bars around as they wish.
For me, this is useful.  If I am surfing a site with long URLs and I want
to see most of the URL, I might drag the addressbat to its own row.
Otherwise, I'd probably tuck it into a corner of a row so that I could
type URLs and paths in on an occaisional basis.

u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > The benefit of having less blank space and more room to work is a great UI
> > enhancement IMHO. The ability to have the menubar, buttonbar and addressbar
> > of IE on the same line (saving about 60pxls of vertical space) is priceless
> > (for me at least :-)
> 
> I agree about putting the addressbar on the same line as the menus. It gives
> more room for the html :)
> It would take 2 changes I think in the gnome-app.c file. From what I can tell
> the GNOME_DOCK_ITEM_BEH_EXCLUSIVE flag needs to be removed from
> gnome_app_set_menus and gnome_app_set_toolbar
> 
> Iain