First of all, hi... for those who were at FOSDEM you might have seen me with Nicolas or Quentin, and I've been lurking around GNUstep for some time too :)
Anyway, I was just discussing with Nicolas on IM, and he suggested my ideas would be more useful on this list than lost in his logs :) On 3/4/06, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I think I agree. While I was curious about the introduction of > vertical separators, I think they indeed make the menu look busier. To make a parallel with typography, that's kind like tables... many people (maybe due to some office application with stupid defaults...) tend to frame their tables and put lines to separate each column, each line, etc... Often I only put one line below the column headers, and use spacing (\quad in LaTeX) to separate columns. White space separates better and doesn't bring noise (try applying a 10 pixel blur to the screenshots). For the detachable menus, I don't like that the menu title is repeated, and takes the place of the 1st item. What about adding a "grab bar" at the bottom of the menu instead (could look like the resize bar of windows) ? The menu would act like on Mac (no title on submenus, only the added grab bar), but if you click in or select the grab bar, the menu detaches. Detached menus display their title at the top, with an appearance similar to the horizontal menu bar. The grab bar can disappear, or better, stay here and act as an additional handle to move the menu. Just writing this I got another idea... what if the mouse had a physical button reserved for a "grab" action, rather than click = select, double-click = activate, and so on... ? -- Damien type less, do more
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