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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
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Date: 10 Mar 88 15:49:27 GMT
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I agree that pull down menus are simply more inconvenient-- you have
to move your mouse 13 feet just to use a menu.  With the pop-up-menus
that I use, your pointer can stay close to the action.  I also prefer
the Input-focus-is-in-the-last-window-that-the-mouse-pointer-was-in
behavior; this would obviously be somewhat at-odds with keeping menu
bars (they would keep changing when you moved up to pick a menu!).
This seems more intuitive to me:  your menus are from (and your
keystrokes go to) wherever you are pointing.

-Miles