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Article #25975Pull down menus.
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 12:51
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 12:51
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If nothing else, Apple has earned a big black mark for pull-down menus. Due to the Mac's popularity (due, in turn, to being the first kid on the block with affordable windows) *everyone* has been copying those stupid menus. Atari even emulates Apple's one-button paradigm on their 2-button mouse. Amiga at least has a separate menu button. But I still have to drag the mouse halfway across the screen to get at the menus when I hit it. I'd MUCH rather have context-sensitive pop-up menus. But, nooooo. Apple came up with pull-down menus and that's the way it'll be. The CP/M-style-system-calls of the windowing world. And what happened to the "drag a document into a processor" metaphor? Apple came up with something that looked like the Xerox Star, but it sure as hell doesn't work like it. -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Pull down menus. Message-ID: <730@nuchat.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 88 12:51:36 GMT References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <3996@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx Lines: 18