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In article <6018@columbia.edu> kearns@read.UUCP () writes:
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>>To summarize, I like where the menus are now, and I believe that the existing
>>menu bar should be kept, with the menu set corresponding to the window with
>>current focus.  Removing this will negatively affect the, umm, _expert_ user.
>>
>
>What if a user had multiple screens?  It seems much better to have
>the menus attatched to the windows in this case.
>-steve

Another problem is with screen size. In old days when everyone had 9 inch
screen, software developers were careful to put everything fit into small
Mac displays. That doesn't seem to be such a golden rule these days,
though. Suppose you use Macromaker and On Cue under Multifinder, that fills
up entire menu bar on screen. Then suppose you decide to open a DA into the
application partition (such as Guidance for PageMaker help files), then you
are bound to have a menu that doesn't fit into original Mac screen. I like
Mac interface a lot (as someone pointed out, choosing menu item from the
top of the screen is a lot easier than actually pointing out a menu from
middle of the screen -- I didn't think about it when I posted the previous
article), but I find myself several times to ResEdit and shorten menu names
in order to make my menu bar into the screen :-(

One way to solve problem is using hierachical menu, but I don't like it
although I like that concept. It seems to take a little more time for me to
select an item under hierachical menu (I haven't tested it, yet I feel like
it). Maybe it is a price to pay in order not to clutter up the menu bar and
the actual menu items.

I like this discussion. Have you noticed that no one has flamed anyone
else when many articles have been posted already?

Chang Woo


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