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Article #26082Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
From: David Smyth
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1988 01:02
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1988 01:02
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In article <3172@phri.UUCP> lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto) writes: [talks about how a single menu bar at the top of the screen which changes to reflect the single application which is currently active: ] >While the description sounded pretty dubious to me, it WORKS incredibly >well. ... Well, lots people think vi works incredibly well too. Really, this top-of-screen menu bar is "modal" and modality is really evil and confusing. One of Xerox's design tenets for good human interfaces is "No modes!" and a good tenet it is. Why not attach the menu bar to the application window (the controlling window if there are lots of them). Then there is no concept of modality to the menu bar, and things like network applications work too. What do you do when there is no concept of "foreground"????????????
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!elroy!devvax!jplpro!des From: des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) Keywords: It works. Message-ID: <1514@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 9 Mar 88 01:02:07 GMT References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <7523@apple.Apple.Com> <1719@ssc-vax.UUCP> <241@eos.UUCP> <884@daisy.UUCP> <3172@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV Reply-To: des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA. Lines: 18