On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:35 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 11:56 AM, Thom Holwerda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd much rather prefer Gnome to go the OSX way with this-- I find that > > system making the desktop very clean, and clear; the menus are always in > > the same place and you always know where to find them-- whereas with > > other DEs it depends on where your currently active window resides. > > > > Secondly, it reduces clutter quite drastically; > > The screenshot shows far less items on the OSX "panel" than what I > have. Also, I have arranged them so that some applets are just after > the menus. Now, if the menus actually changed all the time, those > applets would either fly around or leave gaps when the menus change. I > could move them to the other side, but then there would be a million > applets together and finding one of them would be harder.
I use quite a lot of applets and I would still have enough space in the top panel for an expanding menubar. If I check the length of typical menubars, they merely take a fraction of available screen width. If there is not enough space, it could have an overflow dropdown, similar to Gtk toolbars. More importantly, if this is implemented properly with a freedesktop standard (aren't the KDE guys working on this? What's taking them so long? ;)), then users could always remove the desktop menubar if they would prefer to use the space for other applets. In any case, I think that Gtk should definitely have support for this, once the standard exists. Then we could still discuss, whether it would be a good desktop default. -- Daniel Borgmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
