Re: [Usability] Question: design choice of menubars

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:36 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> One of the advantages of the menu bar always being at the top of the
> screen is the increased ease in targeting it - toss your mouse towards
> the top of the screen, there you are.

Targetting the menu is only half of the story. What are you going to
want to point to next? Most likely something in the application window.
In the GNOME case, the application window is closer than in the Mac
case, so we can make up the lost speed in step 2, right? (Ah, if only
Fitts' Law could figure out whose handwaving was more accurate :-)

-- Dan