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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PROPOSAL: "Mac" menubar as default
From:       Espen Sand <espensa () online ! no>
Date:       2000-04-26 20:02:52
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > Thoughts?
> 
> My thought:
> 
> If you want to make newbies run away from KDE do so:
> 
> - Even after weeks of trying to get used to it I still
> wondered where my menubars have gone and used to think 
> of buggy rc-files many times and it took me many seconds 
> to realize that the menubar is at the very top of
> the screen.
> 
> - inconsistency: Except for KDE all apps have the menubar
> in the application-window. Switching between such apps and
> the KDE-apps makes me REALLY, REALLY feel irritated, pissed 
> off and annoyed.

I think the above is the main (or only) reason why it should not be default. 
It becomes too messy for an inexperienced user. Do a newbie even know 
(or care) what is a KDE app and what is not? It is better to make this 
easy accessible in the CC. 

-- 
Espen Sand

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