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Re: RE : Horizontal menus.
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Philippe C . D . Robert |
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Re: RE : Horizontal menus. |
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Thu, 29 May 2003 11:56:49 +0200 |
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 02:14 PM, Nicolas Roard wrote:
First, I'd like to say I prefer the vertical menus in general to the
horizontal, although I'm a former Atari user ;-)
Hehe ... me too :-)
BUT, one of the great advantage of horizontal menu imho, is the fact
they take less
screen space with a "small" (<=1024x768) screen resolution. And while
on a big
screen I use vertical menus, on my ibook I'm now using exclusively the
horizontal menus.
So I don't think Vertical or Horizontal menus are completerly opposite
things for
an user, as I don't mind using both, depending on the context.
Here I do not agree. Due to the 4:3 screen ratio having anything on top
or at the bottom makes the screen even smaller as most windows tend to
be higher than wide. So even if the vertical menu seems to take more
screen space it takes less of the important screen space away.
<snip>
In my opinion, GNUstep should have ONE style of menu (the Vertical
one) and
not both, because they are quite different. So the inclusion of
Horizontal menu as
a gui bundle is better. What's missing perhaps is some config file
this bundle could
load in apps bundles in order to not "guess" the layout in cases it's
not the best thing
to do. And a simple preferences.app bundle to activate/deactivate the
bundle could
be good ... but we should keep in mind the "official" menu style is
the Vertical one, and
Horizontal menu are just a nice "plus" for people used to it.
Supporting equally both would be a nightmare in useability, so we
should support only one, and as a somewhat NeXTSTEP will-be clone,
Vertical menu are more logical... (and they are far better with large
screen :-P)
Agreed :-)
Just my $0.02...
-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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