On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:09:37 +0100, David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:10 +0200, bugs wrote:
>> 
>> Or did I miss the obvious solution?
> 
> Well, there's always the revolutionary idea of putting the application's
> menu somewhere near the application, rather than two feet away at the
> opposite corner of the screen.
> 
> But if hiding it somewhere a long way away from the app is actually
> considered to be a *good* thing¹, then why would we *not* want to put it
> on a different screen? Surely that would be even *more* fun for the user
> to find, so it's even *better* than the original "menu elsewhere"
> implementation on a single screen was?

Well. That sounds pretty much like the awful implemetations of Unity
(Ubuntu) and MacOS (Apple). As far as I understand the Application-Menu
should not replace regular menues, but instead offer a addition to to
regular menues, with only some concise items (Open, Preferences, Help,
About, Exit not not much more).
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