[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

[David Corbin]

On Monday 11 October 2004 11:38 am, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:11, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > I don't tend to like GTK widgets.  I find them to be ugly.  GNOME has
> > > started pulling out customization options, so I can't make things work
> > > the way I want.  KDE has a much better customization engine, and all
> > > kinds of things are in it.  For instance, I can set up my desktop to
> > > have a menu at the top like in MacOS with KDE and all my KDE apps
> > > change on the fly,  Now that is some cool technology.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the menu on MacOS looks like, but you can place a menu
> > bar at the top of your window with gnome.  Actually, I have 4 menubars,
> > standard one at the bottom, one on each side another on the top.
>
> That isn't the menu I mean.  That is what KDE calls a panel.  It holds
> the main menu (footprint in GNOME, K in KDE), the vitual desktop pager,
> icons, window list, etc).  KDE lets me put panels on any edge just like
> GNOME.
>
> The menu I mean is the application menu.  Every KDE app has "File, Edit,
> .... Help" menues.  In the unix and windows world these are
> traditionally at the top of the main application window (just under the
> title bar).  In MacOS it is always at the top of the screen.  When you
> change active applications, the menu bar at the top of the screen
> changes accordingly.
>
> I used to hate this until I read some time and motion studies explaining
> why this is way more efficient. ?(Google for "Fitt's law" to read why.) 
> Now I have my KDE setup to do this, too. ?It doesn't work for non-KDE
> apps like OOo, but mostly I use KDE apps and it is very nice.
> 

The "menu bar".  A menu is the thing that pops ups... :)

I googled for Fitt's Law, and I think that the "Windows style" of menubar (in 
the application window) would be more appropritate than the "Mac style" with 
regard to Fitt's law.  What am I missing?

David