First impression of Vista

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 7 23:39:09 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:34, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:06, 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.
>
> If you want the single menu bar in Linux, KDE will happily
> accommodate you. It's in the KDE Control Center, Desktop>>Behavior
> - Menu Bat at Top of Screen, select "Current application's menu bar
> (MacOS style)".

Menu Bat? What was I thinking?
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