First impression of Vista

[ted leslie]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 15:06 -0500, 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

In 10 years whe you have a 60" monitor with say  10,400x8000
resoluton, it cost 100$ and weights 30 lbs, and every one has one,
you will not have a central menu bar at top, trust me. )


-tl

>  ubuntu. 
>  
> 
>         2) on the alt tab'ing on a Mac, when you land on a "shrunk"
>         app, like in linux dt's it should revert out of "shrunk"
>         state.
>         I mean what was apple thinking, you are going to alt tab to a
>         app,
>         release on it, and _not_ want to use it?
> 
> 
> Yeah, that's silly. Some freeware app out there can probably change
> that behavior, but this is a pretty good criticism. 
> 
> I haven't tried out the whole xgl+whatever experience yet, but from
> what I gather, if I still have to use KDE and Gnome, there are likely
> going to be usability problems. Gnome as done by Ubuntu is the best
> I've seen so far. It's the closest to achieving the consistency needed
> for a good experience. But still, I want that single menu bar. 
> 
> Mike
> 

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