Re: Mac-style menus

[Matthew Berg <galt gothpoodle com>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:49:58PM -0400,
> Liam Quin <liam@holoweb.net> wrote:
> > As for gnome, tear-off menus might be a way to combine the two
> > interfaces, and if the window manager could combine the menu
> > bar with the window's title bar, lots of people would love you
> > for saving all that space.
> 
> Mac-style menus and toolbars *do* save lots of space. I don't
> know whose hare-brained idea it was to have the menus and
> toolbars duplicated in every single window, but i'm willing to
> bet it was Microsoft.

Ahem. *climbs on soapbox*

What is the point in posting something with no content other than an
insult towards those of us who prefer our menubars to be bound to specific
windows?

I won't bother going through listing my reasons for this bias, as it is a
*matter of personal preference*.

Matthew Berg