On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Ori Idan wrote about "Re: OS-X rules, X sucks (Was: Forthcoming "Blitz" of Announcements)": > I myself do not use the mac and thus more acustomed to having the menu on each > window but I think it would be easy to get used to having the menu on top of > the screen and I also think is is more logical to have the menu at a fixed > place, this will also save screen space.
But don't be trapped into following Apple's ideas blindly - they may be wrong too, even if they claim to have done "research" (and I don't know if they did research in this case). Imagine I have on-screen XMMS (music player), licq (a nice free ICQ clone) and a Mozilla window. These windows do not overlap. At any time while browsing the web I can move the mouse over the XMMS window and click on "play"; I don't need to click on that window first to make it "current". This is where X-Windows' original "focus follows mouse" model shines. The idea that part of the window's functionality (the window's "menu") will appear only when some window is current undermines this model. It doesn't make sense for you to move the mouse into a small XMMS window at the buttom of the screen, only to realize that the XMMS menu suddenly popped up on the top of the screen. I do think that the "menu is always on top of screen" idea has merit, but not in the context of the entire desktop, but rather in the context of an individual application. Mozilla's "tabs" is sort of similar - all the "tabs" share a single menu bar (they share other things too; Mozilla's tabs is yet another great UI idea that wasn't copied from Microsoft). -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 31 2003, 3 Elul 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I am logged in, therefore I am. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
