Re: [Usability] Global Menu Bars

[Thom Holwerda <slakje quicknet nl>]

> That's a very one-sided and opinionated article, which reads like your
> average forum posting. Certainly not extremely insightful, mostly
> listing what we already know. There are many arguments for and against
> global menu bars, and the difficult part is to weight them up against
> each other. In any case, I believe that the benefits are valuable 
> enough
> to warrant a specification, support for it by some toolkits, and at
> least an experimental applet. It might be interesting anyway for
> platform integration of Gtk apps on OSX (if that's possible).

I agree. We have discussed this issue quite extensively, and I think 
that the pro's and con's balance the scale. However, looking at the 
current state of Gnome, I personally think that a global menu-bar a la 
OSX suits it very, very well.

Looking into the possibility of making a nice applet for it so people 
can test it, that would be awesome and a very wise thing to do. That 
way users and developers can "try it on for size", and we can base our 
comments on actual experience and usage instead of articles and 
studies. If I could code, I'd already be on it.


Thom Holwerda
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