Matthew, I love your idea. With little twist: - unmaximized windows get a menu "button" that displays (drops down?) the menu when clicked. This button should be on the opposite side of the close/maximize/minimize window buttons and should be large enobaleough to present a viable click target (see e.g. Opera or Firefox menu buttons). The titlebar retains its current functionality with regards to dragging and clicking.
- maximized windows embed their menus into the top panel, along with the close/max/min buttons. Pros: - retains the visual design of no text menus in regular windows (advantageous in small screens) - retains the advantage of global menus for maximized windows - allows focus-follows-mouse to keep working correctly - this design has been tested and validated by several high-profile applications (e.g. Office, AutoCAD, Firefox, Opera) - this can work in conjunction with global menus! Cons: - won't work correctly on apps that draw their own borders (e.g. Chrome) What do you think?
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