Quoting David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> On 2 Mar 2006, at 23:56, Sa&#65533;o Kiselkov wrote:
>
> > You mean the separator lines in the horizontal menu items, right?
>
> I also meant the gradient look on the top-level menu items, which is
> consistent with the Nesedah guidelines that anything clickable should
> have a gradient look.  On NeXT, the menu items looked like buttons,
> so it was obvious you could click on them.  On Mac OS, they look like
> non-interactive text fields.  This probably doesn't matter much,
> since people will probably learn 'menus are clickable' before they
> learn 'anything with a gradient is clickable,' but it's nice to be
> consistent.
>
> Would it be possible to replace the application name with the icon?
> On Mac OS, different length application names move the other menus,
> so the standard File and Edit menus are in different positions on
> different apps, destroying motor memory.  Since the app menu is not
> clicked on very often, it would not suffer much from having a smaller
> (consistent sized) menu.

Well, anyways I've improved the looks a bit, spaced the elements more appart,
made the separators semi-transparent (= reduced contrast). Take a look and tell
what you think ;-)

http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~diablos/menubar

--
Saso


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