However, my main fear with that is it sort of hides those options under a lot of layers. My goal is more then just getting rid of the menu bars, its getting rid of stupidly repetitive unnecessary commands from easily cluttering view while at the same time increasing functionality and visibility for commonly used options. In an app like calculator your mockup is great, and might be a good transition tool to use simultaneously with the altered versions from before (so that the full standard menu is still available) but I think with more complicated apps (i.e. evolution or firefox) its going to be to cluttered to put every single thing in one title bar drop down. Granted, many use small menu extensions in firefox, but still, theres things that users have never clicked and never will click.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:55 PM, David Hamm
<davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The quick and dirty answer is to move the menu bar to the frame. Make
it an vertical drop down menu next to min/max/close. Preferably done
at the same time windicators take form so as to coax important
functions out of the old model.
Eventually however all applications will have to change...
ps. remember most new (crap) monitors are 16:9 making vertical space crucial.
pss. In order for this and windicators to work, clicking and dragging
anything (in the frame) should move the app.