Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Can't resize windows? (was Re: Windows 3.0 & the Mac) Message-ID: <9240@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 18 Jul 90 23:28:35 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> Distribution: comp Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 35 In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: > >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. Except that in the latest CHI Proceedings some people did a study that showed that the menu bar at the top of the screen was faster than using a popup menu. The reason being that the top of the screen acts as a barrier, which increases the effective size of the target. (That doesn't mean one couldn't design a popup menu interface tha twas better, but a simple popup menu won't do it.) >Apple *knows* that a two-or-three button mouse provides a more efficient >user interface. (An Apple employee told me this.) Then you're talking to the wrong employees. :-) What is efficiency? Certainly 2 buttons allow you to put twice as many functions under your finger than one; and 10 buttons give you 10 times as many. But the questions is whether a user can deal with 2 or10 mouse buttons. >Someday, people will react to the Mac UI the same way Mac users react >to MS-DOS. I'm sure this will happen. If it doesn't, then something is wrong with the computer industry. -- Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014 AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr