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Seen at Apple's WWDC
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America's next top Programming Model
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Re:The Windows GUI isn't worth copying
I regularly see non-expert users do the rename/double click thing by mistake and panic. The sub-menu popup thing has improved a little by slowing down the menu popup: see here for what I mean. This is implemented in KDE3/macos.
Windows XP has added its own problems too. The default start menu is nasty.
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Re:About menus
It seems to me that OS X does it pretty well.
You're both right - the menu tracking was incorrect on 10.0, but this was one of the (many) things fixed in 10.1. There's some more information about this subject here, along with some other Mac subtleties
E.g., one extremely useful one is the way the cursor vanishes when you start typing (but re-appears if you grab the mouse). Systems which don't implement this have the extremely annoying problem where you click in an edit-field to type, and then you can't see what you're typing because the cursor is blocking your view... -
Wanna play with IPv6?Try the KAME project.
Here's one guy's experience setting up a tunnel to the 6bone with OpenBSD. By doing it this way you get a connection the IPv6 backbone and you can run IPv6 in your local network without needing IPv6 services from your ISP.
Note that KAME is for BSD. If you really want Linux, try USAGI.
