Re: RE : Horizontal menus.

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

On 27.05.2003 05:19:37 Jason Clouse wrote:
>> This is an idea I was having as well, although rather than make a 
"locked-in" 
>>decision at compile, I was thinking the "floating" 
OPENSTEP/GNUstep-style menu 
>>should be modified to allow it to "dock" with the top of the screen and 
switch 
>>to an Apple-style menubar, which then your could then "tear-off" like 
any 
>>sub-menu, but perhaps with a modifier+tear.

I like this idea better than having a compiled in solution: Imagine there 
are different users on one machine - everybody would have her/his own 
preferences concerning the menustyle. If this is done at compile time it 
can't be changed later. A compile time solution would also make binary 
distributions of GNUstep more complicated: We would need packages for NeXT 
style menus and packages for Mac style menus. Please go for a per user 
solution in preferences.app as others already said.

>
>Not trying to knock your idea or anything--sounds quite interesting in 
its own 
>way--but it seems a bit complicated for the end user.  And I'm not sure 
it's 
>going to be all that useful.
>
>My impression is that people are very attached to their choice of menu 
style. 
>NeXT fans probably won't ever want to dock their menu upstairs.  And 
those who 
>slant toward the Apple way of doing things wouldn't want to have to go to 
the 
>trouble of docking their menus.

Although I am very accustomed to Mac style menus, I'd like to have the 
possibility to tear of submenus from the menubar. In the old Mac OS 7 
times there was a nifty utility <http://www.mac.org/system/custommenus/> 
that permitted exactly that functionality. I missed this ever since (and I 
heard this feature was in Rhapsody).

Btw: here is an interesting discussion of that topic: 
<http://www.cloudmaster.com/pulsar/rhapsody/>

>
>Both groups would probably want to set a system or user default to one or 
the 
>other and just leave it that way.  And I suppose themes should provide 
artwork 
>for both.

agreed

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greetings, Lars