On Sa, 2006-01-14 at 20:43 -0500, Juan Manuel wrote: > 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? 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.
Like any change in the user interface, the global menu bar has advantages and disadvantages as well; however, this has been discussed numerous times in the past, so I recommend that you search the list archives (usability-list and desktop-devel-list as well) for some arguments from both sides. Nonetheless, IIRC there is no reason why a patch to make this optional in GTK would not be accepted, so this might be the place where you could provide your implementation. -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam2 ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
