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From: sbm@arthur (Steven B. Munson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
Message-ID: <1052@arthur>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 13:00:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 13:00:43 1985
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Summary: NO, NO, NO!

In article <1713@dciem.UUCP>, mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
> ....  Consistency demands that the items on the menu bar be treated
> like any other menu items.

     The menu bar is not a "menu", it is a "menu bar".  It contains
"menus", not "menu items".  If something on the menu bar does something
besides pop up a menu, like save a document for instance, then the poor
fellow that pops up the wrong menu and runs the mouse across the menu bar
to the right menu might cause something to happen that he didn't want.
Active items in the menu bar are unforgiving, not the kind of interface for
"the rest of us."

					Steve Munson
					sbm@Purdue.EDU
					sbm@Purdue.CSNET