Re: [Usability] Mac-style menubar in GNOME

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

M�ar , 2006-09-12 at 17:10 -0700, Justin English ka shkruar:
> I find that occasionally (and heretically) the menu bar at the top of  
> the screen is not what I want. If I have multiple apps open on my  
> multiple-monitor desktop, I may have to move the pointer a great  
> distance to get to the menu bar. As monitors grow, there is a  
> tradeoff between having the menu bar always in the same place and  
> impossible to overshoot versus close at hand in the current window.

A good example of this is the 30" Apple Cinema HD display. Go to the
store and try to use the Mac hooked up on the display. The amount of
distance one needs to travel to get to the menus is insane. I for one
am totally against the menubar idea, and people haven't even gotten to
the real hard issues yet. What happens if you have said applet on the
side or bottom of the screen, or in some arbitrary position along the
edge, rather than in a corner? The overshoot problem makes sense on
Mac, because they don't have arbitrary panel objects. They have a menu
bar. It doesn't fit well into GNOME, and just because Apple did it for
Mac OS, doesn't mean it works well on every other toolkit/OS too.

-- dobey