Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some A3000UX Questions. Message-ID: <6798@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 04:08:08 GMT References: <32336@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <14885@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3155@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <6724@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct7.184813.6221@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <6745@sugar.hackercorp.com> <3159@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <3159@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: > Well, I wouldn't like that idea. It is contrary to something what you > might call visual grammar: First pick the object of an operation, then > designate the operation. This is the philosophy behind all point- > and-shoot ops so far. I wouldn't go so far as that. After all, both Mac menus and most systems with pop-up sensitive menus violate that philosophy. Anyway, if you make the middle button EXTEND_SELECT you won't have to worry about that detail. Let the *user* decide how the system is to behave (and to hell with X). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .