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From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal)
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Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:38:14 EDT
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> 
> >The idea of clicking on a menu item causing an action in itself, without
> >a subsequent selection, is TERRIBLE.
> >
> >The present interface makes "browsing" through menus a very desirable
> >activity...

> The idea of having a special symbol to show that a menu item will bring
> up a sub-menu is a good one.  Why not extend it to the menu bar...
>
> Martin Taylor
> {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
> {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt

Something like this *might* make clicking on the "menu" name acceptable. Putting
"..." after all existing menus could be a problem though (for one thing, they might
not fit any more). It also would look ugly.

Given that we're retrofitting this, it might be better to put a special symbol after
those menu names which *don't* have menus. Unfortunately, nobody is going to know
what it means at first.

I'm still not convinced it's worth it, at this stage at least. 

    Radford Neal