On 05/25/2009 02:04 AM, Nemes Sorin wrote:
global menu bar from Usability point of view ...
I am a designer interested in Man - Machine interaction.
Regarding global menu in Gnome, I spent a 2 weeks using globalmenubar
being curious to find in which mode my workflow will be affected (Speed
? Comfort ? ...).
Well after 2 full weeks - I can tell you all - when you have a huge LCD
/ CRT ( you are designer or DTP guy ) global menu is not an option -
because you have to cross a lot of screen areas with the mouse cursor -
when is not the right case.
The problem with this sort of analysis is that you're only taking into
account your single use-case. What percentage of the target audience
for this sort of thing has a large monitor and would be affected? I'd
say you're in the minority, but without an actual usability study,
neither you nor I can really comment on that.
For *me*, a global menu would be great. I have a laptop with a 12"
screen, 1024x768 resolution. Having a menu bar on each and every window
(minus the ones where I can configure the app to hide the bar) wastes so
much space, and the top of the screen is always within easy reach.
With widescreens even on a mac globalmenu loose it's sense.
Kinda funny you specifically mention a mac -- do people in the mac
community complain about having a global menu? You'd think you would
see that a lot if it really was a problem, since global menu is the only
option on macos.
Now imagine GIMP - you can not assign all
commands with shortcuts - for any filter (I have ~ 200 filters ) which
is not assigned to a shortcut, you have to cross all screen again with
the mouse cursor because of the global menu bar location.
Try right-clicking anywhere on your image ^_~.
-brian
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