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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Summary: porting new interface to NeXT
Keywords: menu metaphors, pull down menus, pie menus
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Date: 29 Jan 89 22:04:48 GMT
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I guess the discussion of alternate desktop metaphors (or perhaps I
should just say "alternate metaphors") leads to the rhetorical
question... is NeXT sufficiently modular that we can port the
interface of our choosing to it?

The Xerox ROOMS metaphor sounds pretty cool (Don Hopkins first
described his ideas to me for an alternate menuing interface a couple
years ago and were probably independent of Xerox).






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