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From: dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New (?) idea for MF menu bar icon
Message-ID: <700@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 23:25:52 GMT
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Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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From article <41d593be.14e0d@robocop.engin.umich.edu>, by mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu):
>	
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> and people, or rather, *I* don't have to look at this ugly thing in the corner
> of my screen...
>   So whadya think?  Phil?  Erich?
> 

Better still, why not do away with the ugly thing altogether, and put the
menubars for seperate applications in the windows themselves, scrollable
in a way similar to the recently posted MenuScroll INIT...?

Maybe I shouldn't bring this up again. :-)

Naw, what the hell.

Can anyone think of any reason (that cannot be worked around in a 
satisfactory manner) for not doing this type of thing to replace MultiFinder?
If you've seen DECwindows, you probably know what I'm talking about... if
not, I mean replacing the "Switcher-style" method of changing the menu bar
from context to context, and putting the menubars of applications in the
application's main window (or perhaps better yet, give each application
their own "virtual screen" in which they can place their "pallete" windows
wherever they like.  Thus, Finder doesn't have to figure out which window
is the "main" one, but simply gives them a whole (virtual) screen to them-
selves.  Then, you don't have to worry about overlapping the pallete windows,
and "hiding" the whole set is easy since it's only one real window on the
desktop instead of more than one (as it is currently in MultiFinder).)

Perhaps I'm not making too much sense...  Ah well, flame away then..


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