On 2/7/07, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there, What do you think? Do you know of any papers (eg comparing the Apple top bar vs Windows bottom bar)? Are there any rational reasons why the bar belongs to the top or bottom? (Actually for terminal users a bottom bar seems better, because the prompt is more often near to the bottom than to the top)...
+1 for top bar my reasons: - is healthier (for the neck) to look the upper half of the screen (specially in laptops, it seems a joke except if you suffer neck-ache) - when using 2 or more master windows the attention tends to be on the top-left quarter of the screen - in the rare occasion I click on the bar I like the fact is near the app menus (less lineal pixels to travel with the mouse) I don't know the actual code but can't it be solved with arithmetic instead of conditionals? Define a TOP_BAR constant as 0 or 1 and use in position calculations as multiplier, 1-TOP_BAR multiplier, etc. The code will be harder and more complex that having just a single position bar but it'll make happy the bottom-bar defenders regards, -- Julián
