On 21/03/11 12:01, Mitja Pagon wrote: > That is based on so many false assumptions and false arguments it makes > no sense. First it's not all about choice, second if application has > menus users never use, should that application have menus at all? But > that is not a problem that should be solved on a "shell" level, it's up > to applications to improve their interfaces. What if application developers chose to keep the menu toolbar (which global menu replicates) for advanced and rarely used options, and implement a one-button menu solution (similar to the elementaryOS approach) to consolidate commonly used functions? The global-menu, as I understand it, gives no consideration to such implementations and simply exposes the menu toolbar regardless. This undoes alot of the (IMO) excellent UI work done by the developers of nautilus-elementary, Firefox 4.0+ and Opera 10.0+ (etc...). As I mentioned previously, I favour these nested vertical menus (for me they're much more intuitive*). Even if, as a fallback for applications which still rely on a menu toolbar (presently the vast majority) it involves a vertical implementation of said menu toolbar (summoned by a single button, or clicking on the window title). Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. *I find that I intuitively recall the vertical position of a menu item, whereas I don't recall the horizontal position. Am I alone in this? Is this a known phenomenon? -- "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" -- Dr. Jonas Stalk, on being asked who owned the patent for his polio vaccine
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