The ‘global menu’ from my viewpoint is far less efficient method of working but as always YMMV and a lot of people work differently. I dislike the Mac method but that’s a whole separate topic. I guess that would have been too similar, though.Ī whole other bowl of worms so to speak.
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Personally I think it could look better too but when you’re so limited I guess there’s not much room for choice.īack when Vista was still called Longhorn and there was so much speculation in the air about how much it was going to “borrow” from Mac OS this time around, I was so hoping Microsoft would do the global menu bar thing. Obviously this isn’t possible on Windows so they had to do the best they could. The app’s buttons and url widgets are flush with the title bar above and bookmarks bar below (or tab bar if you’ve turned off the bookmarks bar). Back to your point, since the menu bar is not part of the app window, there is none of that annoying grey space on the OS X version. It takes some getting used to but overall it makes things consistent. In OS X, the menu bar is not part of any application it’s always at the top of the screen, separate from the application. This is mostly due to a major difference in design philosophy between OS X and Windows. Honestly, sticking with the typical window theme of having the title bar being just that, a different bar looks a lot better. You’re just left with the huge gray spaces that feel empty. The biggest issue is the centred title with the right justified file menu.