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In article <34418@apple.Apple.COM> tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot) writes:
>If anyone can recommend a way to improve these icons, I'd like to hear it.
>Better yet, post to this newsgroup so that others can become involved as well.

I can't think of a good design, as I can't remember how Easy Access works.
Then again, that is partially a fault of the design as well.

When I see a mysterious thing in the menu bar, my first impulse is to click
on it to see what it does.  After all, the menu bar is a place to put things
that do stuff when you click on them.  Easy Access should detect such clicks,
deduce that the user is confused, and try to solve the user's problem.

Another mysterious glyph that I find particularly annoying is the AppleShare
arrows.  Most of the time I don't care when there is traffic, and blinking
over there just serves to distract me.  If for some strange reason I did care
about traffic, I should be able to open up a DA or mini application or whatever
that showed me detailed information in a window that worked happily in the
background.  After all, the Mac has true mutitasking by Apple's definition of
the term, so this should be an easy thing for Apple to produce. :-)

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