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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.020152.28403@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Date: 1 Jul 91 02:01:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun29.232917.28817@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <14332@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun30.015828.5393@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <1991Jun30.015828.5393@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
> A two button light-pen/touch screen would be much cooler. Touch the
> titlebar, then touch a menu item. But using the mouse for heavy
> duty menu work can be nerve racking sometimes.

You don't like mice, and you prefer light pens? Ever hear of Gorilla Arm?

Actually, the Amiga menu bar makes sense for single-sensor mechanisms like
a touchscreen, light pen, or *single button* mouse.

Which is where this whole discussion started: *De-Macifying* the Amiga.
Removing Mac kludges like menu bars from the interface...

> (Pop-up menus are a step in the right direction. I think pop-up menus
> should be toggleable so that sometimes they stay on the screen

OpenLook has something like that: each menu has a little pushpin icon
that you can select to stick the menu to the screen.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"