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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] On the future of the menubar
From:       Brian Shannon <teapot.philosopher () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2010-02-25 8:01:44
Message-ID: 8e9e3c371002250001p12eac60bvcecad78e97891c9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I'm not sure exactly what problems the menu bar has that your design
solves. Can you please clarify this for me?

There are also problems with your design.

Scrolling tabs is not a good idea because it renders the user's
natural spatial awareness moot. If you have lots of tabs open, you can
no longer tell where a particular tab is in the tab bar because you
have two things to manage. a) Where the tab is in the visible space
and b) Where the visible space is in the context of the invisible
space (because there is no indication how far you are from the far
left/right). Adding menus to the tab bar would compound the problem.

On the other hand, if you let tabs get smaller and smaller which takes
advantage of the user's spatial awareness, the names of the menus in
the menu bar would become invisible. Then we could decide menus don't
get smaller but then we are even further compounding an existing
problem with tabs.

And the only upside I see to this is gaining a very small amount of
vertical space.
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