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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: GUI interface complaint
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Date: 26 Feb 90 02:00:01 GMT
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The only real complaint I have so far with the GUI is the 
following:

I like to put the menu of an app at a place where it can't be
seen (i.e. off the screen). This way it does not take away a 
lot of 'expensive' screen space. Hitting the right mouse button
is anyway much more convenient that searching for the menu
somewhere on the screen.

Now the problem:

If I click the right mouse button close to the window boarder
the menu just gets clipped, but does not move up so that it is
accessible as a whole. This is solved better in X (sorry, that
is true..) This is especially annoying with programs like 
Mathematice which has LONG menues. So you have to start thinking
on where to move the mouse to before you click for the menue.

Another bad thing: you can not tear off a submenue, if you got 
the main menu by clicking the right mouse button. Moving on the
submenu title and dragging should do it...

Ronald
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