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Article #1255Re: What are menus?
From: Robert allen Jung
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 21:55
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 21:55
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In article <3234@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Well, I asked "what in the real world are pull-down menus a metaphor for?".
In article <1472@zen.UUCP> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
> The
>desktop metaphor sure isn't a true representation of any desktop I've seen,
>but then it does seem more useful the way it is.
To address the original question, I always thought drop-down/pull-down/etc.
menus were a metaphor for actions you do on a desktop.
Suppose you click on a file, then go to your respective menu and choose
"Show Info". Isn't this equvalent to grabbing a sheath of papers, then looking
at them to see what they're about?
Okay, so the menu--action metaphor is a lot closer to the menu's intended
function; But since when do metaphors have to be abstract?
--R.J.
B-)
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