Re: [PATCH] Show/Hide menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> I don't like these "folded" menubar -- i want the menu gone, i don't
> want to have a menubar only one fifth the height, but still wasting my
> screen estate and my attention.

If you want a GUI widget to turn these back on, you cannot get away
without wasting some real estate.

One huge advantage of these little widgets is that many users
instantly know what do they mean.

> Enabling the menubar is on one of the menus you get when hitting one
> of the modifiers and one of the mouse buttons.  Maybe S-mouse-2 would
> be a good place to put these options.

Do you really believe a user can reasonably asked to memorize this?

> Oh -- and a picture is worth a thousand words only if these words are
> trying to describe the picture.  :)

???