Original message: Received from Scott Haneda on 11/6/03 at 6:05 am >Menus at the top, they are allowed above the screen, and no other app I have >seen in OS X does this, I liked it in 9, but in PM, it just seems strange to >me now, I have kind of used it as a "snap" feature now to move stuff to the >top of the screen, and it goes just to the very top. > >Furthermore, I would like the ability to lock the menus to the message >window, rather than having them floating around, is this possible?
I never had any objection to the menu arrangement whilst I was using PM under OS9 but in OSX it just feels kinda old fashioned. I think that a much nicer option (I think someone else suggested this a while back but I'll reiterate it) would be to use an OSX Finder-like toolbar. This could be hidden or shown using one of those little clear oval buttons over on the right and could also be customisable so a user would only have to be presented with those tool buttons that they regularly use (I hardly ever use the buttons at all actually, except for the Show address book, Forward and Redirect ones because I can never remember the key codes for those functions). The customisable toolbar could also hold the "View only" field/drop-down and maybe background processes as well. Finally, I would perhaps like to be able to have the Recent Mail Window (RMW) integrated into the browser somehow rather than having it as a separate window which I find a bit awkward. Maybe this could be done using 2 tabs, switching between normal browser functions and the RMW. Alternatively maybe there could be an option for a 4-pane view where the RMW is added to the right hand side of the Browser. Obviously this will only be practical for people who have large monitors at high resolutions, and so should be a user-selectable option. Just a couple of thoughts. Rick ----------- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS X 10.2.6 :: 768 MB RAM PM 4.1.3 :: 3 pane mode <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
