OT: Mark made my day!

[Thom Holwerda]

> 1. I disagree with this and happen to dislike macos style of menus. I
> also question there overall usablity (a bigger issue)

Well, I happen to agree with him here for the full 100%. I've never been
fond of the
"every-window-needs-to-have-a-menubar-for-no-reason-other-than-it's-
the-current-paradigm-whether-it's-the-right-paradigm-or-not" ;). And
yes, I am a Mac user, but only since last summer. I preferred the whole
"menubar-atop" thing before that (setting the option in KDE, installing
ObjectBar on Windows).

I think that the most important thing to do when looking at UI
behaviour/design is putting parts of UI we find normal, under the
microscope. Are they really the best? Are there better alternatives? And
most of all, have I tried those alternatives before judging them? (no
personal pun intended to anyone).

There actually was a discussion about this on Gnome's desktop-devel
list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-April/msg00002.html

It's an interesting read.

Thom Holwerda

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