Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Magnus Lofgren wrote:

> I guess some of the reasons I'm not very fond of the vertical menu is:
> Having more than one application open at the time clutters the screen, 
> as the menu's overlaps eachother,

Only if you don't have a properly working window-manager ... when one 
application is
active all the menus of other applications are hidden, so they never 
block each other.

>  I have to separate them, and I end up having a confusing mess of 
> menus. They aren't very friendly towards maximized applications either, 
> as the menu blocks some of the contents of the application.

Then you can drag the menu off screen ad just use the right mouse button 
to pop up a menu when you want it.

> Maybe the ultimate approach would be to have no static menu at all, but 
> to only bring up the menu temporarily while pressing down a second 
> mouse button ( as it works now). Either way it couldn't hurt to have 
> the Apple approach as an option.

Yes.  Once we have a preferences app like NeXT used to have, I imagine 
we will have the option to set the default
location for the menu to be off screen.