[Aquamacs-devel] full screen mode 2.0 preview

[David Reitter]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> The new "absolute" full screen mode is not convenient.
>
> There should be at least the top menu displayed when the mouse hits  
> the upper side of the frame.

Cocoa (the NSView class that is) doesn't allow you to do this stuff  
yet.  This makes things more complicated.  Vebjorn might be willing to  
work on a better fullscreen mode.

> Otherwise, casual users will never be able to get use to Aquamacs'  
> functions.

Casual users probably wouldn't use fullscreen mode.

> Plus, if they forget the command to exit the full screen mode, the  
> only solution is to quit Aquamacs. Not practical at all...

Yes, that's a problem.  Standard on the Mac is Esc.  That's taken.   
Maybe we need a permanent hint on the screen.

- David

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