[riobard]

Might be a little bit off topic, but the detached menu bar gradually pisses me off as screen gets bigger. It's really a long-distance travel for the mouse to click the menu on a 1920x1200 screen. Now Apple is rolling out 27' iMac with an even bigger screen ...

The situation gets even worse when I use multiple monitors as menu bar only shows on one of them.

[paddy_m]

I agree. Fitt's law falls apart at high resolution

[seabee]

I'm not convinced it falls apart. It seems more like a failure to take account for the distance you must travel on your return from the menu bar.

[houseabsolute]

Interesting I have no problem with it on my 30" monitor. But then again I don't use the menus very often.

[riobard]

I don't use menus often, either. I guess this design really forces app developers to carefully choose buttons and other widgets on the UI to avoid menu as much as possible.

But on the occasions when menu is required, the experience sucks big on my dual-monitor setting. And there is no keyboard shortcut to ease the pain.

[epochwolf]

Use control+F2 to focus on the menu bar. :)

[riobard]

Yeah I know that trick ... but it's not quite the same as ALT+(underlined character of the menu item) thing on other systems. For fast typists, it's pretty awkward to hit the  first and then use arrow keys to move around. I wanna go directly to "File" menu by hitting SUPER+F, for example :|

[epochwolf]

Well you can hit control+f2 and then hit F for file. :)

[riobard]

Yes I could do that ... but I left the F1-12 keys on my MacBook to its default, which controls dim the screen, volume and stuff like that. So to press CTRL+F2 I actually have to press FN+CTRL+F2. Try this combination on a MacBook (with only the left CTRL) and see how awkward it feels ... It completely screws the experience of "shortcuts".