Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Can't resize windows? (was Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 17:09:57 GMT References: <1990Jul10.022352.4138@bdmrrr.bdm.com> <3097@gmdzi.UUCP> <90195.153543Q8N@psuvm.psu.edu> <3114@gmdzi.UUCP> <4706.26a43afd@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In-reply-to: ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu's message of 18 Jul 90 14:33:33 GMT In article <4706.26a43afd@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >It has been argued here before (re: Mac vs other GUI) that the Mac's >single menu bar is a highly useful feature, since it provides the menus >at a constant location (i.e. you don't have to go mouse-hunting; you can just >whip the pointer up to the top of the screen and you've hit it). But when you have bigger screens, or perhaps three monitors, move the mouse to one spot is a real pain, expecially when you are at one end, and the menu bar is at the other. I have never had to "hunt" for a mouse with a pop-up menu. And "whipping" the mouse all the time is much more tiring on my wrist. I would rather have the menu jump to me, than make me move to the menu bar. No mouse moving at all. Apple *knows* that a two-or-three button mouse provides a more efficient user interface. (An Apple employee told me this.) The real problem is: Apple cannot radically change/improve the user interface because the new interface will not be Mac-like. Someday, people will react to the Mac UI the same way Mac users react to MS-DOS. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett