Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Feb 2007 19:56 UTC, submitted by Governa
"In the first head-to-head comparison of trying to accomplish a task with Mac OS and Vista in this series, the new Windows operating system fell flat on its face. Migrating from an XP installation was halted by repeated failures of the Windows Easy Transfer application when used with a network connection and a so-called Easy Transfer Cable. I finally gave up and used Lenovo's System Migration Assistant."
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Member since:2005-08-11
if you close the main tool box window in the Gimp, it closes the whole app. if you close the document window, that doesn't affect the rest of the app. This behaviour is very similar to MDI apps under windows, where one window is the aprent and all the child windows are controled by the parent.
"So you might emulate the look but not the behaviour that goes with it, which is - in my eyes - pretty useless.."
Actually, you can have turn off the menu's in KDE application windows, and use the OS X style windows. KDE allows you to bring the menu back using a hotkey, ctrl-m, I think. This gives you the exact same functionality that you are looking for. That's why KDE rocks, because it gives you options.
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2005-07-12
The Gimp does not act the mac way, there is a menu on EVERY window, the toolbox, the editing surface, everything but the palettes. I have the gimp open right now, try opening it up before you comment on it.
I was obviously talking about the closing behaviour. Try to close the app by closing a document. I does not. The GIMP closes when you close the toolbox window. It stays running when you close any document window. And this is more or less the same behaviour as e. g. Photoshop or Word or any document centric app on the Mac except that the menu sits on top of the toolbox and not on top of the Desktop.
(BTW: older versions of the GIMP did not have a menu on top of the document windows)
While you can configure the 'having a menu on top of the desktop vs. on top of a window' I don't believe that you actually can configure the closing behaviour of an app in KDE (at least the last version of KDE I used couldn't do that).
So you might emulate the look but not the behaviour that goes with it, which is - in my eyes - pretty useless..