Re: Look and Feel

[Markus Hitter]

Am 14.02.2005 um 11:34 schrieb Frederico Muñoz:

> On 2005-02-14 09:41:26 +0000 Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> wrote:
>
> > Am 14.02.2005 um 06:38 schrieb Alex Perez:
> >
> > > You also may not realize that one of the very useful things about 
> > > GNUstep
> > > menus is that the submenus are detachable, which many, many, many 
> > > people
> > > find quite useful.
> >
> > How about making the whole menu bar detachable? Stick it to the 
> > screen's top
> > for beginners and let power users drag it around.
>
> [...]
> I'm not against having the option, but I must stress that when looking 
> at the mockup the floating menu  doesn't subtract nothing, but instead 
> adds grace, function and charisma.

The big advantage, supported by research results, of a menu attached to 
a screen edge is, you have to adjust your mouse movement in one 
direction only, in the other direction the screen border is your guide. 
 Horizontal menus on the top border reduce the required accuracy of 
mouse movement even further, because the size of the menu normal to the 
required movement is typically bigger.

This is always an advantage but competes with the need of a possibly 
very long mouse movement on large screens.


Markus

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