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Request - More Mac-like Menu Behavior
JimH:
--- Quote from: glynor on September 22, 2015, 12:38:20 pm ---They read these posts, but don't always answer for a whole host of reasons.
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xtraktz:
It is very strange to sell MC in 2015 with Windows XP's design. Maybe it is normal for Windows users but not for Mac.
This is not conducive to good sales for new users.
we are all waiting for the big update =)
JimH:
--- Quote from: xtraktz on September 22, 2015, 01:14:55 pm ---It is very strange to sell MC in 2015 with Windows XP's design.
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I'd bet $2 that there are more copies of XP in use world wide than all versions of OSX combined.
I acknowledge your concern, and we may do it sometime, but it's not at or near the top of our list.
As someone else said in this thread, for some people, it's nice that the two versions of MC act alike. So that means we'd need to make the menu style optional and that complicates things.
jlyness:
+1 for making the menus behave like, basically, ever other mac app with a visible menu bar. Seems like a basic thing that could/should have been done some time ago.
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: xtraktz on September 22, 2015, 01:14:55 pm ---It is very strange to sell MC in 2015 with Windows XP's design. Maybe it is normal for Windows users but not for Mac.
This is not conducive to good sales for new users.
we are all waiting for the big update =)
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There are skins, for a Mac-esk look I'd suggest ModernCards.
I agree that the app menus should adapt a more Mac-esk behaviour like the first post suggests, which is pretty straightforward it seems. However the subject regarding MC supporting Apple's native app menus has been discussed multiple times before over the last couple years. This may be seemingly difficult as MC uses its own system for the menus, skins, etc. and not Apple's native app menus.
However, would it be possible to fake the look of the native Mac menus without actually using them? Think about it, all it'd require changing the background of the menus to the semi-transparent color (white-ish and/or black-ish depending whether dark mode is enabled) and change the size, font, color, etc. of the words. Along with that move About Media Center... to the first "main" menu where Quit is located and finally add a way to detect whether or not dark mode is enabled. This all could be aided by the OS detection that's used for the skins too. :D
In a nutshell I'm talking about full-blown MC menu skinning support.
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