Re: Clash of the Titans, GNUstep alongside GNOME

[Marc Brünink]

On Mittwoch, Nov 30, 2005, at 08:01 Europe/Berlin, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:

> Quoting Helge Hess <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>:
>
> > On 26. Nov 2005, at 18:16 Uhr, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > > - the feel -- more difficult; under windows you want menu-in-
> > > windows, etc
> >
> > Is it really such a big deal to resize the content-view of an
> > NSWindow and place the menu at the top? (really, I have no idea, but
> > this point sounds rather easy, no?)
> >
> > Greets,
> >    Helge
> > --
> > http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/
> > OpenGroupware.org
>
> It isn't, but there's lots of apps out there which exist as a 
> menu-only when no
> windows are open, e.g. Project{Manager,Center}, Gorm, GNUMail, etc. 
> Such a
> concept doesn't really fit into the Windows world.

I didn't follow the discussion so this may be junk :-)
You could open a window with an menu and open all real application 
windows within this window (tabbed). This is a pretty common concept. I 
guess it would be pretty ugly, but more windows-like.


Marc