Re: Re: All GNOME Shell Developers.

[Florian Scandella <flo chilicode com>]

i wonder how someone would handle multiple active apps ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj590HkBwYg

flo


On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 18:34 -0800, David Hamm wrote:
> :p for got to cc.
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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:27 PM, jared <afonit gmail com> wrote:
>         no problem and thank you for the links to explanations - I
>         appreciate it.
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>         On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, David Hamm
>         <davidthamm gmail com> wrote:
>                 http://v4.kazzuya.com/blog_tags/os_x
>                 "One thing I can't stand is the global menu bar on
>                 top. It's terrible to have to look up to pick
>                 something from the menu. It gets silly if your monitor
>                 is a 24 inches like for my iMac. With a dual monitor
>                 setting, the global menu bar thing really becomes
>                 stupid and the usability level drops in the realm of
>                 serious frustration."
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>                 http://www.osnews.com/thread?348850
>                 "I believe the idea of a global menu bar is not good.
>                 It is one of the things I mostly dislike on Mac OS X.
>                 What happens if I want to view the menu bar of each
>                 window currently open at the same time? I would have
>                 to activate its window in order for me to see the bar.
>                 That is so time consuming.... I would like to be able
>                 to see the menu bar for each program/window at the
>                 same time."
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>                 These two quotes, pretty much sum it up for me. Sorry
>                 for not explaining earlier. Personally this is one of
>                 my biggest gripes with osx. It may seem like a silly
>                 thing to complain about, but for some reason it really
>                 bugs me.
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>                 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:10 PM, jared
>                 <afonit gmail com> wrote:
>                         Could you detail, or link to a detailed
>                         explanation of the aspects of the nightmare of
>                         the global menu as present in OS X.  Perhaps
>                         something could be learned from that.
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>                         On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM, David Hamm
>                         <davidthamm gmail com> wrote:
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>                                 "Isn't the plan to add a global
>                                 menubar?"
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>                                 oh gawd, please don't. If its anything
>                                 like the global menubar in osx, then
>                                 its a nightmare. Please keep the
>                                 applications settings within the
>                                 application.
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