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Request - More Mac-like Menu Behavior
bobkatz:
--- Quote from: glynor on September 23, 2015, 11:08:23 am ---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:
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.
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Agree 100% with Glynor. I personally am not annoyed by the look and feel of JRiver on Mac... only the particular ergonomic blockade mentioned above.
blgentry:
OS usage numbers are interesting and relevant to the discussion. But IMHO, the numbers that are probably more important are numbers that none of us will probably ever get to see. Namely the number of units of MC sold for Mac in the last year. You'd have to try to fudge in some of the master license numbers too, since some Mac users bought those. When I bought my license for MC20, for example, the Master License was on sale and I got that instead of a Mac license.
Of course all of this analysis is fuzzy at best though. You can't predict anything from past performance or statistics. Nor can you tell how many users you will attract with a new feature. I can tell you FOR SURE, that some people don't buy MC for Mac because of the menus and the general non-native feel. The corollary then is that more people would buy MC for Mac if it had a more native feel. Are menu enough? They are a good start for SURE. I obviously can't guarantee anything, but my gut feeling is that more people would buy MC for Mac with native looking and feeling menus.
Frankly, I don't really care about the menus for my own use. I'm SOLD on MC either way. Though it would be nice to have more people join the party, discover the magic, and put more money in JRiver's pockets. :)
Brian.
JimH:
--- Quote from: blgentry on September 23, 2015, 08:18:15 pm ---OS usage numbers are interesting and relevant to the discussion. But IMHO, the numbers that are probably more important are numbers that none of us will probably ever get to see. Namely the number of units of MC sold for Mac in the last year.
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I think our sales are about 5:1 in favor of Windows. That's probably not far from the ratio of machines in service.
I think it's very common that people have both in the home. We sell a lot of Master Licenses.
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