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Re: end user ajustable Global menu Blacklist

 

On 01/29/2013 08:28 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
  - For media editing (GIMP), the "Professionals" and "the enterprise" you talk
    about who are used to the application in question typically employ a more
    keyboard shortcut-heavy + mouse usage, so I doubt the menu is used much
    either. Let's also not forget that Mac OS is very popular for media editing,
    and they use a global menu, so it really isn't as bad as you claim it to be.

I have to disagree on this, I use GIMP a lot and (at least the multi-window version) is a PITA to use with the global menu. I personally find that the global menu is a usability nightmare with non-maximized applications, and the fact that Mac OS has it too doesn't make it any better.

Ciao,
  Alberto


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