Hello Domen, this top menu thing is not that confusing you are just not used to it. This is one thing most people have to learn a bit when they switch from Windows to MacOS.
There are advantages in using a top bar menu. To click a menu item you normally have to push your mouse (which is less accurate than pulling) and then you have in Windows to hit an for example 100 pixel wide and 32 pixel deep area to select a menu. On the Macs the depth is infinite, so it is easier (by a few fractions of a second) to hit the menu option. But more important for Mac-menus is the position. The menu is always on top. It is at the same position. And you get a meta menu point which is normally squeezed under File (exit) and in Gnome partly under edit (preferences). If we would go for that kind of menu style the meta menu (menu point with the application name) could hold: - Prefences - Exit ------------- + list of other open apps Or it could be merged with the gnome-shell activity menu. But I do not want to push Mac-style menus here. I think we should start to think less in a program-style-logic. People you different features of their system at the same time. Today these things are represented by integrated applications, which doubles a lot of interfaces. Addressbooks, contact details, search and indexing. So we should rather work on handling multiple windows of different applications on one screen (and others on other screens). Maybe this idea does not work well with the Mac-style menu. Greetz Reiner p.s. by the way mac style menus do not work very well with mouse-pointers in sloppy focus. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
