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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <792@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 13:06:45 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1450@csib.csi.UUCP>
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Summary: Apples and oranges again

In article <1450@csib.csi.UUCP>, jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell) writes:
> Sorry, but it is releavant.  The issue was not where the menu shows up when
> you click the mouse, but where you click to get the menu you want.

Maybe for you. For me the issue is whether the menu pops up under the mouse
or halfway across the room.

> Move all the
> menus to one known place (the menu bar) and give them simple mnemonic titles
> makes it more obvious to the casual user.  Which is what Andy said and
> everyone *except* *you* understood.

That's two differences. You're confusing where the menus come up (the menu
bar or under the mouse) with the contents of the menus.

> This is nice, although I prefer Apple's solution of command keys that
> select menu items.  This way I don't have to keep moving from the keyboard
> to the mouse to repeat an operation.

That's another dimension still. You can have command keys no matter where the
menus come up.

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