On 2003-05-15 23:36:08 +0200 Ian Jones <ian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Daniel Luederwald wrote:
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Horizontal menus are inefficient on large screens and totaly
impractical on multihead or xinerama type installations. I have seen
this discussion played out many times here before. I personally would
feel much happier if this desire and effort were put towards making
what we already have stable and usable for people to develop
applications on top of before people start changing things so that it
starts to look and behave like their OSX machine. If you want OSX
then use OSX, as far as I know the way GNUstep looks and feels was
never inteded to emulate OSX and all its mistakes.
Will some 'bring menu to this screen' or 'bring menu near the mouse'
function be sufficient? Or what about keyboard menu navigation? On the
other hand, in well behaved application you have all frequently used
functions reachable by shortcuts and other functionality in
panels/inspectors/whatever. Moreover, there is still possibility to
detach menus. I mean, there should be some compromise to satisfy more
experienced users/expert environments.
Stefan