Comment Single Menu - Bad for Big Screens (Score 1) 377
If you throw yourself down to an Apple store, you can try out the 30" Cinema displays.
Kick up quicktime to play a hd-video, and it starts up in the bottom left corner. You want to hit File->Open, so off your mouse goes, 30 inches across the screen (having to be picked up and pulled back a couple of times to get there). Once you arrive, click file->open, then haul the chap another 30" back to hit Play on quicktime, because it won't start automatically.
Now THAT is a pain in the ass. If the small quicktime menu had been on the window itself, where would be the problem? No, I'm dead against the single menu idea. It may look more elegant, but as screen resolutions and sizes increase, the arguments FOR the single bar become less important (adding a menu per-window hardly uses much space on a hi-res screen), and the arguments AGAINST start to grow.
I say ditch it, there's better solutions, but that does require that Apple bite the bullet.
Now THAT is a pain in the ass. If the small quicktime menu had been on the window itself, where would be the problem? No, I'm dead against the single menu idea. It may look more elegant, but as screen resolutions and sizes increase, the arguments FOR the single bar become less important (adding a menu per-window hardly uses much space on a hi-res screen), and the arguments AGAINST start to grow.
I say ditch it, there's better solutions, but that does require that Apple bite the bullet.
