On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Juan Manuel wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:43:37 -0500 > From: Juan Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Questions > > I just saw chapter 4 of the gnome hig 2.0. And I want to know. Why the > menubar must be put inside the application window?
The Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) provide developers with instructions on how to make their applications fit in and be consistent with the Gnome applications which exist already and that is part of the reason for the guideline. More importantly GTK does not lend itself to anything else. > Is there any REAL usability difference between putting a MacOS-like > menubar applet in the top panel which shows the menubar of the active > app. Yes. Well at least some people think the Mac way of doing things makes better use of the valuable edge space, a principle known as Fitts Law. > And the current windoze-like way of using the menubar? It isn't about Microsoft, but it is more like almost everyone except Apple has used this way. There are various people who are interested in trying out a Mac like top panel in Gnome if support for it is ever added to GTK. The main limitation is technical, what is needed is developers interested in doing the work. This has been discussed many times before and you should be able to find out more if you search the mailing list archives: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ There isn't much left to be said which hasn't been mentioend already. Sincerely - Alan H. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
