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WayneBro | 9 years ago

If Windows implemented a global menu bar like Mac - I'd stop using computers. I hate the global menu bar. It's the worst thing about the Mac operating system IMO.

I am not sure how anybody thinks it's a good idea. Probably about once a week, I go to click on a menu on my Mac only to find out that the menu doesn't even belong to the app window that I was looking at. That's a show stopper to me and I honestly don't understand how anybody thought it was a good idea.

The foundation of the Windows UI is so much more flexible, robust and consistent than Mac. Apple very obviously cares more about style than function. As a matter of fact, I read somewhere that many Apple engineers hated the Dock but marketing loved it so they kept it.

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tracker1|9 years ago

Maybe it's just the frustration of config/settings/preferences being in different locations for every freaking application on windows. It's definitely not consistent...

    File -> Settings
    File -> Preferences
    Edit -> Settings
    Edit -> Options
    Edit -> Preferences
    Tools -> Settings
    Tools -> Options
Anything but consistent. In mac it's `[AppName] -> Preferences` always. And maybe you're right about each window having its' own menu bar.. all the same, I wouldn't call it consistent, as it really isn't.