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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Message-ID: <274@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: 12 Jan 89 08:13:37 GMT
References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> <10870@s.ms.uky.edu>
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In-reply-to: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)

In article <10870@s.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms (Sean Casey) writes:
>[regarding pull-down menus]
>>>They represent Postit(tm) notes stuck on your rolltop desk.
>>Pull down menu's represent ... control knob type things on mechanical
>>devices????
>
>No, pull down menus represent Venetian blinds or pull down maps like
>they had in grade school. It's the natural way to make your computer
>selections...

Close but no cigar.  Pull down menus, IMHO, represent the small panels
or doors that hide seldom used controls on equipment.  Thus they
represent something on your TV, not your desktop.  The motivation is
consistent: the controls are there when you need them, and the rest of
the time the display doesn't look so `busy'.

-- Jon "now where's the tuning eye" Krueger
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