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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.143831.28146@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:38:31 GMT
References: <1CE00001.h5kxly@tbomb.ice.com>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <1CE00001.h5kxly@tbomb.ice.com> time@ice.com writes:
>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.

Oooops, sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the interface
today.  How do you account for the 20+ megabytes of INIT and cdevs that
I have in my archives?  THAT is not a flexible system?
 
>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.

Sounds like something a little operant conditioning could cure :-)
 
>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 /expletive/ balloon?

Seems to me that all of the above have been OUT for a while.  You don't
suppose they will be updated to USE the Help menu, do you?
 
>These are just my two biggest pet peeves. There are many more examples.

Hmmm, hopefully they will come for in a less bombastic form.
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