Re: [Usability] Global Menu Bars
- From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lookkas gmail com>
- To: daniel borgmann gmail com
- Cc: usability gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability] Global Menu Bars
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:36:28 -0300
2005/4/18, Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>:
> One approach might be to only display the parent window's menu for
> dialogs, so the menu would become empty for normal windows that have no
> menu.
But this gives us a whole sort of problems with large apps that would
need to be fixed...
> In any case, this important difference between the OS X and free desktop
> environments need to be considered when evaluating the usefulness of it.
> Mac practically grew up with this behavior, so everything is optimized
> for it.
Good point.
While I agree that having a global menu bar/applet would be awesome, I
don't think it's worth the effort, because:
1 - I don't think this would be a HUGE advantage usability-wise (Maybe
somewhat better, but not something that I would die for). I'm on the
oppinion that global menubars and per-app menubars are almost
equivalent solutions (slight lead for global menubars), with pros and
cons.
2 - The work to make the whole model "work" will be HUGE ;)
So, maybe we should focus in other important usability work instead of
engaging on such a huge task.
Just my 2 cents :)
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