Poll: Of Qt and KDE applications on OS X, and the About/Preferences menu.

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

> all too reminescent of winders: lets see unix uses /, well fum we’ll use \


By the way, I would point out that the Mac way was the original one;
per-application menubars were Microsoft being different just because
Microsoft, and OSF/Motif openly imported the Microsoft Windows 3.x design
and mindset without any shame (calling it "Common User Access") and it's
held sway on Unixes ever since. Before that, X11 programs didn't have *any*
menubars; they had menu buttons like editres (and not always at the top!),
or various control-meta-cokebottle-clicks like xterm.

So it's pretty ironic that you accuse the Mac single menu bar of being like
a Windows-ism, when the per-app menubar is *literally* a Windows-ism.

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