Re: Global menubar (was Re: #4 on ToDo list: make the top panel prettier)

[Eugene Gorodinsky <e gorodinsky gmail com>]

How is the concept of having two windows focused at the same time useful?

I can imagine an interface where two or more people use the screen at
the same time, but such an interface would be radically different than
that of the PC used by just one person at a time. For such an
interface a menu within the application's window is appropriate.
However when only one person at a time uses the gui, the way it is
with iphone and macbook air, you don't need to have two windows
focused at the same time. In fact having two windows focused would be
rather confusing: if I start typing on my keyboard, which window
should recieve the keystrokes?

2009/1/27 Jay Bee <jaybee444 gmail com>:
> 2009/1/27 Brian Fleeger:
>> Solution:
>>
>> I recommend using a text-based Global Menu system for the near future.  It
>> will be more user friendly on the smaller computer screens that are becoming
>> more prevalent, and will also give more room for content.  A text based
>> Global Menu system is also cost-efficient, as a relatively small number of
>> man-hours could port the existing menu system from the in-window model used
>> today up to the top panel.  Program behavior need not copy Apple's OSX, and
>> plug-ins and patches such as "window-picker" could be used to obviate the
>> need of a "dock".
>>
>> In the long term, I do recommend a menu system that is both Global-style and
>> graphical in nature.  I already have several working mock-ups of how they
>> might appear, as well  as a breif description of my rationale.  But it would
>> be too long an email for me to put all that here.
>
> Lets assume that with MPX we can have two completely separate windows
> (applications) focused at the same time, maybe even more than two.
> Which one would get it's menu in the Global Menu?
> How would you propose to solve that issue? Fallback to in-window menu?
>
> Igor
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