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From: davef@jessica.stanford.edu (David Finkelstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.210828.1885@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 90 21:08:28 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.171736.21153@midway.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>I, for one, would love to have the option of putting the menus from the top
>left of the screen to a place where they consume less real estate. And, the
>black top-bars on applications don't use real-estate very productively.
>Displaying only the application name is a bit wasteful. Yes, I do really wish
>that I could put the main menu onto these bars---just as the Mac does.

Well, using Preferences you can specify where you want menus to appear
-- check the monitor options.  It's even possible to have the menus
appear off-screen (almost) by dragging the Preferences menu as far
off-screen as you can.

And of course you can use pop-up menus.

David Finkelstein
Academic Information Resources
Stanford University
davef@jessica.stanford.edu