First impression of Vista

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:49:32PM -0500, ted leslie wrote:
> I don't know if it is a part of a plug in to beryl, but they have that 
> Mac like bottom panel , animate/zoom thing.
> 
> I have a Mac igloo running 10.4, and I got it 1.5 years ago,
> this was before compiz and fluendo,etc. So when it came to itunes
> (and online music purchases, I did really think it was preferable to
> linux)
> But there are two things that I think are brain dead on a Mac,
> 1) why is every apps tool bar on the very top of the screen,
> I have been an apple user since about 1981, and certainly when i got my
> first 128MB Mac, with only running a few apps, and a small screen,
> having a common top pull down menu panel was OK.
> Fast forward to this century, and people have 20-30 apps/windows open,
> and i don't want to be going to the top of the screen for my menus all
> the time.

Having the menus in a consistent place, where moving the mouse to the
top of the screen (where amazingly it conviniently stops by itself)
hits the menu is actually a very good idea for a user interface.
Microsoft messed it up, after the Mac and the Amiga had already done it
the better way.  Having the menu in one place also saves screen space,
which there is never enough of.  Microsoft's new solution is to make
the menus disappear until you hit alt or point to the right part of the
window (wherever that is), which is probably a bad idea.  People don't
use things they can't see or don't know where is.  The amiga was pretty
clever in that the status bar was also the menu bar as soon as you hit
the right mouse button (which is the button used for menus on the amiga).
Most things since unfortunately have just done it the microsoft way.

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