Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
> As far as I can see, the main menu is spanning the board window. Am I
> seeing wrong ?
It spans the tab, but most of the items perform actions that change
other windows and/or create/destroy them. Therefore I think it would be
more intuitive if the menu of the [board]-tab is actually the menu of
the whole window, ie. also display above all tabs.
In the last shot the problem is more prominent as actually the
[board]-tabs menu, the [books] menu and the [notation] menu are on one
level (visibly) and they are also not distinguishable from [tree] menu.
But, [board]-tabs menu is actually the central menu of Scid and it has a
pretty special role.
Logically, it does not make much sense that the [board]-tab is even a
tab as one can not close it without closing the whole application and
therefore it is different from say analysis engine. But I think this is
currently only as it's easier to put everything in tabs. I guess this
tab will be gone in the GA.
> An interesting side-effect of this way of docking the windows is that
> it indicates quite clearly that you need a window to be active to use
> its menu's actions.
? I do not see the point. If you want to choose an item from any menu
you have to give that window the focus first. Usually, this just happens
automagically if you click the item as the mouse event is passed
through. Hence, I see no difference in either handling here.
BTW: how is this on the Mac? OS X has one and only one single menu on
top of the screen which changes according to the window that has the
focus. I guess that Scid on Mac did that the same way till now, but the
tabbed version will probably show menus all over the place, especially
where no Mac program would ever put them. So to say they "boldly go
where no menu has gone before".
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