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From: fink@mist.cs.orst.edu (Paul Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
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Date: 15 Mar 88 17:25:45 GMT
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In article <7398@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> elcond@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Gregory Dow) writes:
>In article <730@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>If nothing else, Apple has earned a big black mark for pull-down menus. Due
>
>Pull-down menus are fine on the original, small Mac screen, but can be
>a pain with a large and/or mulitple monitor set up.  Tear-off menus

No! No! No! I hate popup menus. Pull down menus work fine for me on any monitor.
A menu bar with pull down menus lets you see what chioces you have and
encourages you to browse. With multi-button mice and crtl key button
combinations you must remember what combination gives you what menu. This can
be very confusing for the beginner, I'm trying to teach physics students how to
use Xwindows without much luck. 
Popup menus also mean each program has its own interface.What happens when
you have a program with 7 to 10 menus? The ctrl-button combos start looking
like a MS-DOS function key interface.

Apple has earned a gold star for bring us a humane interface.

paul fink
fink@mistcs.orst.edu