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> How does that do anything but confirm the GP's point, that it's dumb to place a menu bar potentially thousands of pixels away from the window it applies to?
by awj 15y ago
> How does that do anything but confirm the GP's point, that it's dumb to place a menu bar potentially thousands of pixels away from the window it applies to?
That menu bar is effectively a billion pixels tall. You can throw the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and only concentrate on accurate horizontal positioning, since the mouse will not leave the top edge.
Putting the menu bar at the top sells out the distance side of the function to dramatically increase the target size.
- jerrya 15y agoSo now that you've thrown the mouse to that easy to find top of the screen mile high menu bar, and completed your mouse action, don't you now have to find your teeny weeny window over in some far off portion of the screen and move that mouse back into the window you're actually working in?
- bane 15y agoThat is correct. And one of the largest consistent complaints by new OS X (and prior to that MacOS) users in terms of usability problems. On multiple monitors, the menu can be 1 or more monitors away from your app window. It might not just be up at the top of the screen, it might be up at the top of 1 screen over and two up.