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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Menu items that change
Keywords: changing menus interface
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Date: 7 Jul 90 01:54:45 GMT
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In article <23058@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> kurash@carr (Mark Valence) writes:
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>Actually, I didn't write this - you've taken me out of context. Ah, who cares.

Sorry about that.

>As my original posting states, I also disagree, but for different reasons.
>First of all, I do see an 'essential difference'.  In the case of 'Clean Up'
>the changing item does not just 'clarify'.  It can actually be changed

I would argue that in both cases Clean Up cleans up the selection.  If no
icons are selected, then the selection is the active window.  The Finder is
consistent in this respect.  If you have no icon selected in the frontmost
window, and choose the Get Info command, you get info about the frontmost
window.  The same goes for Open.

>Mac user (like me) has been frustrated by this item - you go to clean
>your window up and - damn, forgot to unselect.

That's true of any command that takes a selection as a parameter.  You make
a text selection to do a Copy and forget to select the last character of a
word. 




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