On 10/20/06, Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 20:25 +0200, Martin Ejdestig wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:11 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > > The menu thing looks like the Mac menu, but doesn't > > > behave anything like the real thing does on Mac OS. > > > > And the slab thing looks like Windows' start menu but doesn't behave > > anything like the "real thing" on Windows. Or did I miss something? :) > > It matches the behavior more closely than the menu bar applet does. > > > (FWIW, I don't think it matters much how much something might or might > > not look like something else on some other system...) > > It depends on where the difference is. The two main types of > differentiation here are: > > 1) It's different enough to be better. > > 2) It's just different enough to be confusing. > > The slab falls into category 1, while the menu bar falls into category 2 > here. The default panel layout in GNOME looks like some inane mix of Mac > OS and Windows, and has been a point of confusion for many people > switching over.
I am going to have to disagree with you. The primary issue I have seen is with where the menu is (the upper right) rather than how the menu looks. Corey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
