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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <53970@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 21:27:05 GMT
References: <1CE00001.hy1of0@tbomb.ice.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1CE00001.hy1of0@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com writes:
>
>In article <1991Jun12.032046.22831@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>> >Not everyone wants the menu. I don't.
>> >I don't have time to avoid it, let alone use it.
>> 
>> Avoid it?  How exactly is it getting in your way?  I have to agree
>> with Rick.  If you don't like it, don't use it.  If there isn't room
>> it gets removed.  Finally it'll most likely (nothing's definite)
>> become the defacto standard place for online help.  Could you please
>> explain yourself.
>
>Sure.
>
>I don't like it.
>I don't want it in my menu bar.
>I like my clock thing there.
>I don't use it.
>
>How come I can customize some things and not others.
>Seems counter-Macintosh.

"Counter-Macintosh"? When have to _ever_ been able to control what
menus you want in your menubar? According to your philosphy, I should
also be able to put my menubar down the right side of my screen, and
swap the positions of my goAway and Zoom boxes in my windows. Being
able to do that would be the ultimate in customization, but then
consistancy goes right out the window.

You still haven't answered the question "How exactly is it getting in
your way?"

And what's this business with everyone's clock, anyway. I wrote my own
menuclock about four years ago. Of course, it doesn't know about the
Help menu, so it merrily draws right over the menu. Does anyone know why
their menuclocks are backwards in this respect? Why do other menuclocks
get overwritten by the Help menu?

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