Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Nicola Pero]

> > 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.

No - it works in gnustep as well! - in gnustep you *can* access an
application menu by right-clicking with the mouse inside any of the
application windows, exactly like in NEXTSTEP.