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From: rjohnson@seas.gwu.edu (Ray Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
Message-ID: <1952@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 15:00:15 GMT
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This discusion on apple menu is rather interesting to me.  First of all
I am in favor of the idea.  Curently I use the heir-da shareware product
and DiskTop to produce something to the same effect but on a most restricted
level.  

However, as an admistrator of a lab I understand that it is not a great
idea to have so many options availible to users because they often know
very little about the mac.  So what do you do?  I think the best way
would be to have the ability to turn the option on or off using say
ResEdit.  This way novice users, and indeed users on the whole, would
have a simple flat apple menu.  On the other hand, power users that
wish to rearange the system to thier liking have the ability to do so.

-- 
Ray Johnson
Internet: rjohnson@gwusun.gwu.edu       Phone: (202)994-6853
The George Washington University