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Indeed, although I use macs daily for over a decade now, the whole "consistent" placement of the app menu at the top of the screen has struck me as idiotic from
by mvdwoord 4y ago
Indeed, although I use macs daily for over a decade now, the whole "consistent" placement of the app menu at the top of the screen has struck me as idiotic from day 1. On a 27 inch iMac it was already a nuisance, on a 43 inch wide monitor it is downright silly. My preference would be to make it a setting, as I can see there are cases where it does make sense, e.g. multi windowed application with palette windows and such, if one so prefers.
- qwerty456127 4y agoIt feels weird while you are not accustomed to it but after some times it feelw the only reasonable way. I felt this when switching from XFCE to Unity. I felt the same about hard disks naming when switching from Windows to Linux - lack of drive letters felt weird but now it feels great.
- pmontra 4y agoIt was ok in 1984 on the very first Mac with a sub 7" screen. It felt out of place on later models with normal sized monitors (normal for those times.) I never liked the Mac UI because of that menu thing and I configured my way out of it in the Ubuntu GUIs in the 10s.
- usrusr 4y ago...and when that menu bar was a primary interaction element of almost every application you'd use. These days, that seems to be more exception than the norm.
- hoistbypetard 4y agoThe very first Mac (and all of the B&W ones that came after and maintained its approximate form factor) had a 9" screen.
- pmontra 4y agoMy bad. You are right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K