Re: [Usability] Global Menu Bars

[Thom Holwerda <slakje quicknet nl>]

> I'm wondering, how can we properly handle the case of child windows
> (not) having their own menu? We could override the global menubar in
> case it has one and keep showing the parent window's menubar in case it
> doesn't, but how does the user then know if the current menu applies to
> the main window or the child window? Certainly an important question in
> cases like File -> Close. How does OS X handle this case, I assume it
> just doesn't have menus that are specific to child windows?

Well, I'm currently in a "new mail" window, and the top bar is still 
the same. Every app simply has it's own top-menu and child windows 
indeed don't alter it. And dialogs arent of any concern, as dialogs in 
osx don't even have a window border; they suspend down from their 
parent's window titlebar.


Thom Holwerda
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