Re: Apple style menu bar!

[Mike Newman <mike greatnorthern demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:01 -0500, Timothy Mann wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>  I wanted to ask about implementing an apple style menu bar( where the
> menu bar is at the top of the screen and not located on the application
> window). Is there a way to set gnome to do this? Are there any benefits
> for having your desktop arranged this way?
> --Tim

Tim

This request used to come up quite regularly. The consensus always
seemed to be that it was too difficult to implement in GNOME, but
perhaps recent changes in the way GTK+ manages menus may resolve some of
the issues.

Aside from 'looking cool' and 'being more like Apple' what do you think
the benefits to the user could be? My own concern is that a lot of the
accessibility gains in GNOME would be lost by taking a key part of an
application out of context - or at least a lot of accessibility code
would need to be rewritten.

Mike