Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!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: 19 Jul 90 03:17:52 GMT References: <1990Jul18.173018.18971@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Distribution: comp Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 42 In-reply-to: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu's message of 18 Jul 90 16:24:15 GMT In article <1990Jul18.173018.18971@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: >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? I never said that pop-up menus would replace the pull-down menus. They could augment the Mac interface and be a superset of the current UI. > >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. I agree that some interfaces that use multiple mouse buttons are bad. That doesn't mean that they are all bad, or hard to learn. People keep talking about users who get confused with the functionality of the different mouse buttons. Surely people have considered ways to solve this problem. I can think of a dozen physical ways off the top of my head. >>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. I will. What is the address? -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett