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From: rjc@css.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill)
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Subject: re: HAM
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Date: 24 Jun 91 19:07:08 GMT
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In article 7264, nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
> Am I the only person here who thinks that a Heirarchical Apple Menu is a
> dreadful idea? I'm perfectly happy with the way Sys7.0 handles things now.
> 
> Just curious.
 
Actually, YES, you are the ONLY one Nick!  :)  Seriously though, I'm sure
that some people might hate the idea. Those people will be the ones that
won't use HAM.
 
Chris Derossi also talked about some of the interface ideas... such as, it
was determined that most people HATED the idea of using italics in the
menus to represent aliased items (which I personally like... go figure.)
Chris said that he had overcome the 256 hierarchical menu limit and that
yep, it could be ugly. I think it just needs to be managed so that things
don't get out of hand.
 
For my code to do hierarchical apple menus, I finally decided to take out
the support for aliases to other volumes... 25 levels of menu is too much
(even for me.)  :)
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