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Did Some Insider Just Spill The Beans On New Apple Laptop?

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Re: Did Some Insider Just Spill The Beans On New Apple Laptop?

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You know abhout this "drag and drop" thing? Open up the Displays preference pane. You see the two (or more) screens and you can drag them around to decicde how to arrange your virtual desktop. Now drag the menu bar to whichever screen you like. And remember, Google is your friend.

Ah, didn't realize that you could drag the menubar separately.

In your defense, a lot of "elegant" GUI designs are like this: they lack affordances, so you have no idea that they can be manipulated. But once you learn them, they seem to make sense.

The common alternative, some sort of configuration wizard with 1,000 controls, seems worse. But only just.

Re: Did Some Insider Just Spill The Beans On New Apple Laptop?

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, didn't realize that you could drag the menubar separately.

In your defense, a lot of "elegant" GUI designs are like this: they lack affordances, so you have no idea that they can be manipulated. But once you learn them, they seem to make sense. The common alternative, some sort of configuration wizard with 1,000 controls, seems worse. But only just.

In some cases it's just a little more thought -- like here if, for instance, the border of the menubar was highlighted as the mouse rolled over it, it would be pretty obvious, in my opinion.
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