Re: [Usability] Mac-style menus?

[Frans Englich <frans englich telia com>]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:07, john erling blad aftenposten no wrote:
> Is it possible to extend the specification to general items thorn loose
> from a window? I'm thinking of things like dialog buttons and
> shuttle/search buttons in media players.

Yes, but one should first question why, and then if it cannot be solved in 
another way. For example, nothing hinders a media player or any other app, to 
simply use multiple windows, which sounds like the case above. The central 
menu bar spec, which is more or less identical to the system tray spec, is 
for generic integration of widgets across processes, for a well defined use.

There is one case, IMO, which at least looks interesting: doing something 
similar with toolbars. The topic is tricky, but in case someone did a 
proof-of-concept(whatever that would be) and showed there was a real need, 
then such a thing could probably take part of such a spec(but that's as 
speculative as it sounds).


Cheers,

		Frans