Re: Shared application menu

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

Dirk Olmes wrote:

> The bleeding eyes comment was more targeted at the proposed location 
> of the toolbar: top of the screen. Or did I misunderstand your 
> original post in that respect?

Correct. I suggested the top of the screen. In my opinion, the tool bar 
on the top of each window is mimicking
MS Windows' tool bar. Which is harder to locate your mouse on it (than 
one at the top edge of the screen).
Tool bar at the top of screen is not a new innovation. You'll see 
similar interfaces in some existing apps
such as Acrobat Reader (however, it is not really on the top of the 
screen because the area was occupied
by the 'horizontal menu' and this results the app's tool bar can not 
take fully advantage of the edge of the screen)

The downside of this interface is that size of tool bar is very limited. 
You simply can not put a too
height material (for example, putting 2 horizontal sliders laying 
vertically) This could make porting
some applications harder. (But in my opinion, it is still better than 
just keep walking blindly after Aqua)

> Yes, I like that configurability it could be taken even further: why 
> not let the poweruser make her own toolbar buttons and attach custom 
> actions to it. StepTalk comes to mind immediately ...

Possibly may be.