Re: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[Chris Hanson]

At 1:03 AM +0200 3/24/03, Serg Stoyan wrote:
>   I suppose, that horizontal menus in OS X is for MacOS compatibility
>   rather than usability. That is, for easy moving old MacOS users to OS X.

I think you suppose incorrectly.

The screen-edge menu bar is one of the most significant usability 
achievements of the last 25 years.  Apple's not going to throw it out 
unless the alternative is *very* substantially better.  While 
OPENSTEP's menu palette has some of the same usability advantages 
when it's bound to a screen edge, it isn't substantially better.

  -- Chris

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