Re: Clash of the Titans, GNUstep alongside GNOME

[Helge Hess]

On 30. Nov 2005, at 08:01 Uhr, 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?)
> 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.

Very good point! I forgot about that.

I suppose the solution is to open a window on startup and to quite  
the app when all windows are closed. This should work well in  
practice but requires some custom handling for Windows inside the app  
unless something like NSDocument is used.

BTW: this is also something which annoys me about Ubuntu/GNOME, it  
has the Mac style top-menu (which is actually more like a dock) _and_  
an additional menu per window. Thats completely confusing.

Greets,
  Helge
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