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From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
Message-ID: <282@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 17:20:00 GMT
References: <68207@cc.utah.edu> <41795@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: chris@ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Organization: Unisys/Automated Document Management Systems, Radnor, PA
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In article <41795@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you) writes:
>The Apple menu can be made to support Hiermenus *if the user chooses to use
>them* -- with the default being off, since hiermenus drive naive users
>crazy (and some of us non-naive users, too). 
>
>You don't turn them on with a silly checkbox somewhere, though. You turn
>them on by creating a sub-folder in the apple folder and sticking stuff in
>it. The name of the sub-folder is the menu-item that roots the hierarchical
>menu, and the stuff in the folder is on the menu. Then you make sure you
>only allow one level of hierarchical menu to keep people honest. 


HEAR HEAR!  This is an excellent suggestion.  I second this suggestion
wholeheartedly, as will all right-thinking mac users :-) :-) :-).

An added benefit is that extremely-frequently-used applications (etc.) don't
*HAVE* to be at a lower level -- they can be at the top level.  Then, less
frequently used things can be at the second level.

	Good thinking!
	chris sterritt

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