Comments on: Multiple Monitors, Moving Menu Bar

By: Andrew Hedges

Andrew Hedges — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:59:43 +0000

Don’t feel dumb. I think this is just a great lesson to all of us developers about how users don’t read help! Especially on the Mac, where you expect everything to be obvious, if the interface doesn’t afford a certain behavior, it’s totally understandable to miss a feature, even when it’s literally spelled out for you.

By: John D

John D — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:56:36 +0000

Man, I can’t believe how dumb I’m feeling, because I couldn’t figure this out and gave up. I had resigned to having the iMac as my primary display, but this is so much nicer!

And to think the instructions are right there in the text. I didn’t read that either and 2 other guys here in the office missed that also. All developers.

I think the thing that makes this not intuitive is that the toolbar doesn’t highlight when you click down on it to drag but the whole screen does highlight.

By: klaus

klaus — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:54:31 +0000

Just want to say, that you are not the only one. I was looking for that myself and did not see it until your blog. Thanks.
The problem might be that some things are too simple for smart developers as we are ;-)

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:53:58 +0000

I don’t work on mac, but it seems nice.

By: john

john — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:10:27 +0000

Thanks (I think). Bottom line is: “Read the directions” (or perform better searches) :)

By: steve

steve — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:20:28 +0000

Sorry to say, it’s been that way since at least OS 8.

By: Rich Cavanaugh

Rich Cavanaugh — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:55:25 +0000

Here’s a picture of Mac OS 8’s display control panel from 1997:

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/586201168293913/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/58620/58620_1.gif

Notice the “To relocate the menu bar:” part? It’s been there a while :)