Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Keywords: Drag-and-drop, basic ideas Message-ID: <1991Jun19.001832.23693@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 00:18:32 GMT References: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun18.163422.26170@ifi.unizh.ch> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 19 In article <1991Jun18.163422.26170@ifi.unizh.ch> matija@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes: > You are stating that doubleclick is a loss of the original idea of > drag-and-drop. I am of the oppinion tha this was an elegant NEW approach > of 'how to start an application' No, it was a kludge invented by Apple because they were hung up on the one- button mouse. So instead of having buttons to select and activate objects, they had to make one button do double-duty. > and the pull-down menu was a so _good_ > approach, that almost evry new computer implements it. (a) No, they don't. Only the ones copying the Mac. Neither Motif nor Open Look use it, for example. (b) It was a kludge invented by apple to cover up the lack of a menu button. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"