Frank your Majesty said:
yhwx said:
Frank your Majesty said:
But didn’t you say that everyone fullscreens their windows anyways? So docked to the application is exactly the same as docked to top in 90% of the cases.
And even if you have multiple windows on the screen at the same time, it makes much more sense to me to look at the top of the application, since when all menubars are at the top, you first need to check which one is active before you use the menubar.
The application name is in the menubar.
Yeah, but let’s assume you have two windows, one on the right half, one on the left. You’re working in the left window, now you want to use the menu from the right one.
In Windows, you simply move your mouse to the right window and click on the menubar, when using a mac, you first need to move to the right, activate that window, then move back to the top left where the menubar is. Seems unnecessarily complicated to me.
I have been there.
yhwx said:
Tyrphanax said:
I didn’t find it very ergonomic!
It was still happening six months after I started using a Mac and I’ve never had that issue on PC.
If it was more obvious which window was in focus when you have a bunch of non-maximized screens open without having to stop and read some text, I might be temped to call it user-friendly.
Active window titlebars are darker than inactive window titlebars.
When you’re on autopilot and thinking about other things, it’s often not obvious.
My workflow was a lot of times “Move file from A to B, try to open menu for A, open menu for B, sigh with annoyance, click on A, open A menu”
It’s not a great design in my view. I can see how wanting to have a single, context-sensitive menu bar makes sense, but in my experience it’s not better than having a separate menu bar in each window. It’s still an extra click on a Mac either way, like Frank said.
