Re: Shared application menu

[Martin Brecher]

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Personally, I pretty much like the way ParaSheet does it on OPENSTEP. It
has floating toolbar/input windows which can be made to stick to the
focused document window.
This way only one toolbar is present at a time which avoids wasting
screenspace and reduces clutter. And, as with all tool windows, the
toolbar and input windows are hidden when the app loses focus.

I've put up a screenshot at
http://www.stupid-design.com/martin/GNUstep/shots/parasheet_openstep.png

AFAIK this is what Word does on OS X, but I could be wrong :-)

Greetings,
Martin


Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
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| As for NSToolBar:
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| This is a per window thing, that means an application may sport different
| kind of windows of which each kind can have it's personal toolbar. (An
| example that comes to my mind is Camino which has different toolbars for
| it's browser and download windows).
|
| A toolbar on the top of the screen implies global validity of the toolbar
| items. Since it is done different from that in Mac OS X it would create
| another hurdle for porting applications.
|
| Btw. you might think it is done like you propose in MS Windows for
| instance. That is only half way true: Even MS Word and MS Excel differ in
| the way they handle this. MS Word has a toolbar at the top of each window
| like in Mac OS X but MS Excel has a master window with a toolbar that
| contains the document windows. Such an inconsistency is worse than any
| other consistent way to do this. MS Windows should not be a role model
for
| user interfaces (like for KDE or GNOME).
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