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From: stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden)
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Subject: Re: Standards for Balloon Help?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 12:41:20 GMT
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In article <14057@goofy.Apple.COM>, carr@apple.com (Randy Carr) writes:
  | Graying out the Show Balloons menu item just isn't appropriate.

Had to smile.. sounds like Bush.. Wouldn't be prudent at this juncture..
:-) :-)

Why..?  Once you've seen it, you've seen it...!  An obvious user interface
flaw is the "Help" key on the Extended Keyboards.. doesn't turn on
or off balloon help.. nor does Command-Help.. what the world really
needs is a keyboard shortcut to turn the item on or off, and if that
be the case, why not trash the icon?  Why not a key to turn on or
off the display of the menu item?

No-one has been able to say why this is not a good idea, other than
"every man and his dog will one day write Balloon Help".. So..?

Stu.

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