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From: des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
Keywords: It works.
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Date: 9 Mar 88 01:02:07 GMT
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In article <3172@phri.UUCP> lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto) writes:

	[talks about how a single menu bar at the top of the
	 screen which changes to reflect the single application
	 which is currently active: ]
>While the description sounded pretty dubious to me, it WORKS incredibly
>well. ...

Well, lots people think vi works incredibly well too.  Really, this
top-of-screen menu bar is "modal" and modality is really evil and
confusing.  One of Xerox's design tenets for good human interfaces
is "No modes!" and a good tenet it is.

Why not attach the menu bar to the application window (the controlling
window if there are lots of them).  Then there is no concept of modality
to the menu bar, and things like network applications work too.

What do you do when there is no concept of "foreground"????????????