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Robin Gloster wrote on 03/10/11 15:26:
... Haven't used Mac much, so I have a question: How do they manage to get the menus all accessible if they are wider than in Ubuntu? I've had applications in which I couldn't reach all of the menus because of a small screen size on my netbook and many menus? On bigger screens there aren't those problems as far as i know. I could only reach the other menues by using the keyboard which shouldn't happen.
>...There is almost always enough room to show all menus in Mac OS for three reasons.
First, Mac OS has always had a global menu bar, so application developers have always known that their menus could have only one row, and have tested them to ensure they fit.
Second, there never has been (and probably never will be) a Mac netbook. Even the smallest MacBook Air has a minimum pixel size of 1024*768, and the font size is not configurable. (It used to be, but even then it was only in a test tool for developers.)
Third, a Mac OS installation usually has fewer, and narrower, status menus than an Ubuntu installation does. It puts search in a Spotlight menu, but it doesn't have anything like the messaging menu or device menu, all the other menus can be turned off (several of Ubuntu's currently can't be), and its equivalent to the user menu is off by default. (Ubuntu's user menu has to be always visible to provide access to "Log Out".) And its Dock is usually visible, so status can more often be presented in a Dock icon rather than in a status menu.
-- mpt
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