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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: GUI interface complaint
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Date: 26 Feb 90 19:29:12 GMT
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In article <30633@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
>I like to put the menu of an app at a place where it can't be
>seen (i.e. off the screen).
>Another bad thing: you can not tear off a submenue, if you got 
>the main menu by clicking the right mouse button.

I also don't like the menus in the upper-left corner.  For some apps,
however, you REALLY want tear-offs to work (WriteNow, for example).  I've
made a compromise:

% dwrite NXMenuX 1053
% dwrite NXMenuY " 20"

This puts the menu at the bottom right of the screen.  Since I can't move the
dock out of that corner anyway (why, NeXT?), this wastes no unwasted space.
Since just the title of the menu is showing, most of the icon at that
location is also visible.  AND, when I want to tear off a menu, I can drag
the menus further onto the screen, do my thing, and put them back in the
corner.

It would definitely be better if we could get tear-offs from right-button
menus, though.

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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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