Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!news From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Can't resize windows? (was Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac) Message-ID: <1990Jul18.173018.18971@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 18 Jul 90 16:24:15 GMT Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 47 ------- In article , barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes... [...] > >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. I personally find pop-up (a la Sun) menus confusing. I use computers all day long, so I'm not a novice. How easy do you think pop-up menus would be for the novice/average user? BTW, you can purchase serveral INITs which make the Mac have popup menus. Some might even be freeware. >Apple *knows* that a two-or-three button mouse provides a more efficient >user interface. (An Apple employee told me this.) First, a 2 or 3 button mouse doesn't provice a more efficient interface. Check out the Next. A multi-button mouse is _much_ harder to learn to use. Again, I can speak from personal experience. But it's probably a matter of personal preference. Second, what does the above statement actually mean? Who is "Apple"? In all liklihood there are several different camps at Apple wrt mouse buttons, and your chum probably belonged to the multi-button group. > >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. >-- Unlikely, since the Mac interface will change, albeit slowly. If you're so concerned with the Mac's interface, why don't you drop some email to Tog/Human Interface Group? They do listen. Robert ============================================================================ = gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu * generic disclaimer: * "It's more fun to = = * all my opinions are * compute" = = * mine * -Kraftwerk = ============================================================================