First impression of Vista

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael MacLeod wrote:

> On 2/6/07, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:12 -0500, Aaron Vegh wrote:
>>  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.
>
>
> I'm sorry, but the single menu bar at the top of the screen is the Right Way
> (tm) to do it. I can always find it, even if I'm not looking at the screen.
> I use linux, windows, and mac os x about equally right now, and I can't tell
> you how much I wish for a single menu bar in ubuntu.

     The right way to do it is to offer the user a choice.

     For those have have windows take focus whenever the mouse passes
     over them, the single menu bar would not work.

     I used an Amiga for 15 years before switching to Linux, and I
     don't miss the single menu bar.

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