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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Menu items that change
Keywords: changing menus interface
Message-ID: <209@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 20:00:39 GMT
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Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <8997@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <23043@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> kurash@carr (Mark Valence) writes:
>>
>>By the way, menu items that change (like 'Clean Up Selection' versus 
>>'Clean Up Window' [in the Finder]) are a bad idea (regardless of the
>
>I disagree in this case.  There is no essential difference between the two
>commands (both clean up some set of icons).  Adding the description of what

Me too.  
The case of changing menus that really irritates me is when there is a
menu item like "Show Something" that changes to "Hide Something" when the
something is shown.  I think it's because unlike cases like "Undo Something" 
or "Cleanup Window" where the first word is the same, Show/Hide menu items 
change the first word. I much prefer implementations that either have 
seperate Show and Hide items or have a single item with a check mark.




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