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I gotta say, the Mac OS menu bar (and the same on Atari TOS) was great on smaller screens and it still works well on laptops. It doesn't work so well anymore f
by steve1977 4y ago
I gotta say, the Mac OS menu bar (and the same on Atari TOS) was great on smaller screens and it still works well on laptops.
It doesn't work so well anymore for example with todays 34" ultrawide monitors, as the application window and it's menu are potentially far away from each other.
In NeXTSTEP (the predecessor of Mac OS X), the application menu was actually vertical and moveable freely on the screen. The menus were also detachable, so you could for example leave the "File" submenu open.
http://toastytech.com/guis/opensteptoolbar.png http://toastytech.com/guis/opensteptoolbar.png
- kitsunesoba 4y agoI can’t say I’ve had any more trouble with a global menubars on big modern high rez screens than I did on 15” 1024x768 CRTs 20 years ago. In fact the bigger the screen the more annoying I find it for the menubar (or even worse, hamburger menu) to be moving around the screen, because it means that muscle memory doesn’t apply and I’m having to track down a 20px strip or 25x25px button “manually” each time, unless the window is maximized. As for NeXT style menus, I don’t really have an opinion because with WindowMaker/NEXTSPACE on Linux the only applications that use the floating menu are GNUSTEP ones, so I don’t actually have much experience using that style of menus.