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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <730@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 12:51:36 GMT
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If nothing else, Apple has earned a big black mark for pull-down menus. Due
to the Mac's popularity (due, in turn, to being the first kid on the block
with affordable windows) *everyone* has been copying those stupid menus.
Atari even emulates Apple's one-button paradigm on their 2-button mouse.

Amiga at least has a separate menu button. But I still have to drag the mouse
halfway across the screen to get at the menus when I hit it. I'd MUCH rather
have context-sensitive pop-up menus. But, nooooo. Apple came up with pull-down
menus and that's the way it'll be. The CP/M-style-system-calls of the windowing
world.

And what happened to the "drag a document into a processor" metaphor? Apple
came up with something that looked like the Xerox Star, but it sure as hell
doesn't work like it.
-- 
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