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From: kassover@minerva.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Menu items that change
Keywords: changing menus interface
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Date: 5 Jul 90 20:19:05 GMT
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In article <23043@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> kurash@carr (Mark Valence) writes:
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>What are your reasons for not liking changing menus? (It's not
>fair to say they just feel wrong :)

Changing menu items a la "Clean up Selection/Clean up Window", or
grayed out items are ok, IMHO.  Once one is aware that that kind
of thing can happen, and on which menus, one can live with it.

On the other hand, just the other day a colleague was complaining
about menus whose items showed up in a different order, depending
on what the software ('s developers) thought was the next logical
choice.  I dislike this intensely.

(Although giving the user hooks to customize some menus according
to the USER's pattern of work seems to be a reasonable feature,
on the face of it)
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