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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
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Date: 12 Jun 90 01:11:53 GMT
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In article <68207@cc.utah.edu> TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu writes:

> The Apple menu is becoming a control center for the whole Mac and I 
would 

If this was true, then adding hierarchical menus to the Apple menu would 
be the right idea.  But I don't think this is true.  The Apple menu isn't 
intended to be the Macintosh control center.  That's the Finder's job.  
The Apple menu is a simply short cut for accessing a few icons.  

I agree that putting 40 things in the Apple menu isn't a good idea.  But I 
don't think there is any reasonable way to access 40 items from a single 
menu.  
Fortunately, there are other mechanisms in System 7 for organizing one's 
hard disk (eg aliases), so that it should be easier to access icons than 
in previous systems.


Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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