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Bug 342078 - Mac-like menus
Mac-like menus
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-17 04:45 UTC by Juan Márquez
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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This is a screenshot showing how the menubar should be. (306.49 KB, image/png)
2006-05-17 04:52 UTC, Juan Márquez 		Details

Description Juan Márquez 2006-05-17 04:45:51 UTC 
Can the HIG guide be updated to allow the use of a Mac-like global menubar?
Comment 1 Juan Márquez 2006-05-17 04:52:50 UTC 
Created attachment 65634 [details]
This is a screenshot showing how the menubar should be.

This is a screenshot from an OSX 10.2 desktop. You can see that the menubar at the top have the "File Edit View ..." menus and the file manager windows doesn't contain those menus. That's how it should be listed in the gnome HIG.
Comment 2 Sergej Kotliar 2006-05-22 19:24:51 UTC 
*** Bug 342083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Calum Benson 2006-06-16 16:56:31 UTC 
This has been discussed many times over many years, e.g. :

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-November/msg00004.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-September/msg00088.html

If and when we decide to switch to a Mac paradigm, the HIG will give guidelines on its usage.  But since it's not even technically feasible right now, the HIG should not be suggesting such a change.

I'm going to close this one as WONTFIX, and re-open #342083, as this is an implementation issue, not a guidelines issue.