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Request - More Mac-like Menu Behavior
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: jlyness on September 22, 2015, 02:35:47 pm ---+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.
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Media Center doesn't use Apple's app native menus (it uses its own system). That's why it doesn't work.
hoyt:
--- Quote from: JimH on September 22, 2015, 01:30:11 pm ---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.
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$2 is a low bet for something that is statistically possible to validate with Google :) You should also look at future growth though. Windows sales in 2015 were down over 20% in the first half of this year. That's somewhat normal for a new OS release year, but far more than most expect. Meanwhile, Mac sales in Q1 and Q2 of 2015 were up 13% over 2014 - and Q3 is expected to be similar. Now, that pales in comparison for OS usage for Windows, but it's no stepchild.
However, I totally disagree on the statement that "both versions should look alike." Even Microsoft doesn't make Office on the Mac look exactly like Office on Windows. It has similarities, but it still feels like a Mac app... And that's what's missing from MC for Mac.
How about this hypothetical, JRiver is said to be working on a native Android version. Will it look like the Windows version? I hope not.
JimH:
--- Quote from: hoyt on September 23, 2015, 10:40:35 am ---However, I totally disagree on the statement that "both versions should look alike."
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OK, but I didn't say that.
glynor:
To be clear so this doesn't get off-track. The OP's post here, and Bob Katz's follow-up, were very specific about one particular bit of non-Mac-like behavior of the Menus (and I agree completely). Yes, generally there are other places where MC's behavior diverges from a standard AppKit application, including how the menus look. In a perfect world it would be nice to improve a bunch of those things.
However, we're not asking for all of that right now. All we're looking for, right now in this thread, is this one change:
--- Quote ---Other Mac Apps, you can move the cursor from menu bar item to item, but in MC you have to click on the next menu bar item to get to it.
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That is all. Please don't let this slide into a "it needs to be AppKit-native or I hate it discussion" or it won't accomplish anything.
hoyt:
--- Quote from: JimH on September 23, 2015, 10:48:42 am ---OK, but I didn't say that.
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True. Paraphrasing the comment I've read in a few of these threads, didn't mean to attribute it as a direct quote from you.
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