Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder Improvements
Message-ID: <832@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 04:00:08 GMT
References: <813@tank.uchicago.edu> <61982DN5@PSUVM>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <61982DN5@PSUVM> DN5@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>How about this for a menu idea:
>
>Keep the menubar at the top of the screen, but also have a way to access the
>menu from a window (perhaps by double-clicking on the name of the window).
>
>The menu at the top of the screen will always show the choices available, and
>still be useful for those who like it (I do right now, but if I get a bigger
>screen...).
>
>The menu associated with each window (the same menu for each window in a
>given application) I imagine as a pop-up heirarchical menu.

I like this idea too, and in fact McSink 6.1 does a very nice job of
implementing it.  It even scrolls the menu horizontally if it doesn't
fit.

Of course, this makes the Mac interface more like Microsoft Windows,
something I doubt anyone at Apple is eager to do.

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