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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Incompatibility between Adobe TypeAlign and Mac Comm Toolbox?
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Date: 13 Sep 90 12:09:53 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.164329.27751@sics.se> <44728@apple.Apple.COM>
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In-reply-to: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)

In article <44728@apple.Apple.COM>, jdevoto@Apple (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes:
>I don't know anything about this possible incompatibility with TypeAlign,
>but the Installer script for the Comm Toolbox does include a deinstall
>procedure. Unfortunately, the Installer's method of allowing access
>to this procedure is badly-designed: you need to click the Custom
>button, then, in the Custom screen, hold down the option key. The
>Install button in the Custom screen changes to Remove when the option
>key is held down.

Boy I wish you guys at Apple would practice what you preach.  Why
bother publishing all those Human Interface Notes when you're just
going to go and indulge your passion for "secret keys" at every
available opportunity?

Is there something wrong with having a button that's labeled "Remove"?

Hey, here's an idea.  Why not have a short menus and long menus mode?
And you could even have lots of commands that aren't available from
either the keyboard or the menu bar, but just in a scrolling command
list...  The possibilities are, unfortunately, endless.

(BTW, this is not directed at Jeanne DeVoto, but at Apple in general.
I'm always amazed that a company that could come up with something as
elegant and useful as the new Help mode in the System 7.0 Finder can
also load down nearly every piece of System software with secret --
and unfriendly -- "power user" keys.)

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