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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
Keywords: It works.
Message-ID: <1743@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 07:43:29 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <3172@phri.UUCP>
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In article <3172@phri.UUCP>, lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto) writes:
# I hope that all of the Unix types who are talking about how task
# switching can't possibly work right if the menu bar at the top of the
# screen has to switch for each application will avail themselves of the
# chance to play around with multifinder, preferably on a machine with
# enough memory to run a few things at once.  
No one is saying it *can't* work.  People are saying it is inelegant
and poorly thought out...given what other systems are doing.
  
# to select, cut/copy, click on an open window from another application,
# and paste.  The whole operation is faster than getting from one
# directory to another in Unix.  

You are comparing Apples and Oranges.  You can get from one Sun window
to another just as fast (what you should have been comparing).
  
# As far as being a system for small screens, with 2.5 meg and
# multifinder, the screen is way too small.  Navigating something 2-4
# times larger doesn't make getting to the menubar much harder.  If you
# put menus in the windows, which windows do you put them in?  All of
# them?  Even for applcations that can have 7-8 windows open at once?

The desktop can have a *customizable* menu.  Windows have menus that
are unique to the application.

# Sounds pretty wasteful of the screen to me.  

The waste is in the pixels the menu-bar uses.   The workstation menus
are popup...therefore do not clutter the screen.  You click your mouse
and presto. :)