Re: [Usability] Questions

[Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>]

On Sa, 2006-01-14 at 20:43 -0500, Juan Manuel wrote:
> I just saw chapter 4 of the gnome hig 2.0. And I want to know. Why the
> menubar must be put inside the application window? Is there any REAL
> usability difference between putting a MacOS-like menubar applet in
> the top panel which shows the menubar of the active app.

Like any change in the user interface, the global menu bar has
advantages and disadvantages as well; however, this has been discussed
numerous times in the past, so I recommend that you search the list
archives (usability-list and desktop-devel-list as well) for some
arguments from both sides.

Nonetheless, IIRC there is no reason why a patch to make this optional
in GTK would not be accepted, so this might be the place where you could
provide your implementation.

-Samuel
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