Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Ian Jones]

On 2002-05-08 16:17:08 +0200 Philippe C.D. Robert <probert@sgi.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Ian Jones wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is / was a patch for Mac style menus:
> >
> > http://www.webology/daniel/
> >
> > I found the idea very neat when I saw it a while back. I actually find the 
> > behaviour of the NeXT style menus a little annoying when you have a lot of 
> > applications, often find myself chasing menus or them just poping up in my way 
> > when I just want to move an app window. At least with the Mac style menu it is 
> > always in one place. I heard the argument about having to trail across a lot of 
> > screen space to get to your menu compared to NeXT style, but that depends where 
> > you leaft the menu the last time you opened the app. Having to trail across you 
> > desktop is simply a failure to provide adequate key bindings nothing more IMHO.
>
> Well, you don't have to move the menus to somewhere else if you do not want to.

I find often that I need to move them out of the way. I don't think I should 
need to do that.
I'm not at all saying replace the existing menu, but it would certainly be a 
nice alternative for those of us who would prefer a horizontal menu system 
similar to that of the Mac.

> Further you may access the menus in NEXTSTEP by clicking the right mouse button 
> so that they show up directly under your mouse pointer w/o changing their real 
> location.

But this isn't the case for GNUstep which I believe the original thread was 
about.

> -Phil
> --

Regards, Ian