Re: Gnome 3.0 - menus

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Thom Holwerda wrote:

> Secondly, it reduces clutter quite drastically; for instance, look at
> this screenshot I just made:
>
> http://img229.exs.cx/img229/8591/screenshot2eq.png
>
> As you can see, there are three basically the same menu bars located so
> close to each other it makes it look confusing and utterly cluttered.
> Now compare the above screenshot to this one:
>
> http://img34.exs.cx/img34/7009/uygyug6av.png
>
> It looks less cluttered; there's one single menu bar that sits nicely on
> top, and it's always there. What's the use in seeing the menus of
> windows that aren't active? You will only be able to use those menus
> when the window is activated anyway!


Just curious, why doesn't such an argument apply to the toolbar
too?


--behdad
http://behdad.org/