[geeks] Princeton Surplus Haul...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 @ 11:06 -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke said:

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > In the days of the Mac Plus, I briefly liked the Mac.  On a screen
> > that tiny on a machine and OS that only really ran one app at a time
> > anyway, the idiotic single-fixed-menubar model wasn't really a
> > problem.  On anything with a real screen, it's utterly imbecilic.
> 
> How many menubars do you need to use at once?
> 
> If I need to use a command for which I haven't committed the keyboard
> shortcut to memory, I find it easier and faster just to "throw" the
> cursor towards the upper-left of the screen precisely -because- I have
> 3200x1200 pixels of screen real estate.  On Windows, I have to actually
> aim, which takes more[0] time, lest I activate the program behind the
> one I'm currently using.

I've never had a problem aiming for the menu on a window myself.

In KDE, you can tell it to put menu bars on the top of the screen like
the Mac, though obviously that only works for KDE programs.

I am not sure if I really care which way, however... I do find it
really annoying to have to hit the menu bar at the top on a Mac, for an
application I want to keep near the bottom of the screen.

Otherwise it usually doesn't matter.

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