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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Application Menu
Message-ID: <13360@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 90 17:24:28 GMT
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Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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Well, very briefly, I like the new methods of keeping the Application & window
controls in the new Multifinder menu over on the right corner of the screen.
This makes sense, since it's where you control what program is on top, and
what programs are hidden. If there are controls that make the Apple menu icon
blink, that will have to relect such changes and make the multifinder menu
blink instead, if that's possible. 

I'm also pleased with the Apple menus flexibility. It might be pretty good
if Apple took your hierarcheal (sp?) idea, and say, if you selected a menu
item that is acutally a folder (or an alias of the folder), to offer a
hier. menu containing the contents of that menu. That way, with some aliasing,
and structuring, we could have very powerful and organized Apple menus.
 
As far as the ability to move the multifinder controls over to the Apple menus,
this personally doesn't seem "right" to me... i like the new method much
better. If we had the customization to move the multifinder controls over,
what would be in the "multifinder" menu... nothing? I'm a bit against offering
applications in the Applemenu... but open to some well thought out finder
customization, if the performance can be sustained, and it wont cause to much
trouble to have an empty multifinder menu or something.... 

just my 2 cents.

- Chris

 
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