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From: dnebing@bgsuvax.UUCP (David Nebinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <7594@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:26:18 GMT
References: <1CE00001.hy1of0@tbomb.ice.com> <53970@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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In article <53970@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
> In article <1CE00001.hy1of0@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com writes:
> >
> >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.

	Moving the menubar around to a different part of the screen is really
reaching for things.  This is not quite a good argument.

	For the Mac-expert, the balloon menu is something that could get in
the way.  Especially with the se's (etc...) small screen.  Wanting to remove
or disable something like that would be only natural to him.  I have heard
that a lot of programs with an exceptionally long menubar does loose some
items.  And people's clocks seem to be more important to them than the 
online help.

	But the Mac-novice can and probably look forward to using the
balloons as an alternative to paging through manuals looking for one small
item for which they have a question.  The fact that there are now and will
be more novices out there, the balloons should be an integral part of any
program.

	I must admit that I don't use the online help, and probably never
will.  If there becomes an easy way to _temporarily_ disable that menu
item, I probably would.  I wouldn't want to completely remove it, as it is
nice to show off a Mac (especially to Big Blue users), and it gets alot
of ooh's and ahh's.  I did find them interesting at first, but it got old
quickly.

David Nebinger
dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu