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Re: Pull down menus.

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From: D. Jay Newman
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1988 13:56
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There has been a lot of discussion that the Mac Interface would need a two-
button mouse to be able to effectively deal with pop-up menus (except where
you have some sort of button to click).  How about if a double-click in the
window title-bar (outside of the close box and the zoom box) brought up a
pop-up menu for that window?  I prefer double-clicks to modifier keys (I
really hate modifier keys for the mouse--I would almost rather have a multi-
button mouse--now if every application was consistant with modifier keys... :-)


For the most part I like the Mac Interface, and I like the menu bar for the
active application at the top, but with bigger screens, thats a lot of mouse
moving.  Perhaps a double click in the top menu bar or in the open desktop
would bring up the finder menu.

                          Jay, etc...
Disclamer:
    I'm big enough to speak for myself, but not big enough to speak
    for anybody else!
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From: DN5@PSUVM.BITNET (D. Jay Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
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Date: 14 Mar 88 13:56:10 GMT
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