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From: deweese@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Thomas Deweese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.143358.19133@kodak.kodak.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:33:58 GMT
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  I believe that the reason Apple did not provide a way of removing that little
help ballon is so that novices (the persons who need it the most) will always
be able to find it.  It is designed to be one of the common things across macs.
Just like cmd Q is for Quit, cmd O is for open, cmd W is for close (execpt
in Think C -Ahhhh).
  If anyone was just able to hide it, most people would.  Then when some novice
got on the Mac, he would be unable to figure out where his help when.  As
some one said already it is in a spot where it draws attention to it's self,
until you  get used to it being there.  Personally I think that it is a great
idea.  BTW how many people complained about the multifinder icon when they
first put it in the menu?

  The Mac is so nice to use because, for most things if you done it on one mac
you done it on every mac.  This is one of the things I find most frustrating
about other computer systems.  Yes I know unix, but it takes me several days
before I learn where they keep everything on their system, yes there
are conventions, but not enough for my liking.

Thomas DeWeese