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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 11:30:52 EST
Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
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In article <53970@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
> "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.

Those all seem like perfectly reasonable requests. When will they
be ready? I have ALWAYS HATED the zoom box being in the upper right
corner. Am I the only person in the world who zooms out to see something,
then zooms back in? If the zoom was next to the close, I could often
click twice without moving my mouse. As it stands, I MUST move the
mouse to re-zoom.

The problem with a "consistent" user interface is *if* it consistently
SUCKS. Who's consistency am I getting? I am all for consistency, as
long as flexability comes with it.

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

My clock is now an inch left of where I look for it.
I keep clicking on the stupid balloon when I want the date.

Besides, I run five applications:

	MPW			- No ballon help
	ResEdit		- No ballon help
	uAccess
	Word		- No ballon help
	SuperPaint	- No ballon help

How oftain am I gonna use that stupid FUCKING balloon?

Let's face it. The Apple Macintosh UI police do not scale.
The Macintosh is wonderful for idiots, but they refuse to allow the
machine to be "flex-ed" by the power user.

What really blows me away is how simple stupid ideas get into the
MacOS, but truely brilliant ideas created by the hackers on the net
get completely ignored.

For example:

	You can drop anything you want into the Apple Menu, but it is
	*not* hierarchical!

	I want my Apple Menu Items folders to appear with their contents
	in a submenu.

	This has been done by INITs. Great idea lost.

-----

	You can FINALLY create a new folder in SFGetFile().

	What happened to the ability to "jump" to folders in SFGetFile()
	(MUCH more common than creating a folder)? What happened to
	SFGetFile() remembering your scrolled location? JESUS! Simple
	shit, obvious, apparently too obvious. Again, Boomerang, SFVolInit
	and others have done this for a long time.

These are just my two biggest pet peeves. There are many more examples.

tim.

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