Re: What are menus?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1989 02:22

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In article <2470@ssc-vax.UUCP>, coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy) writes:
> Can menus be replaced with something closer to the actions they
> are a metaphor for?  When I want to edit a document I pick up a
> pencil and put it to paper.  ...

Have a look at the original mouse-menus-icons user interface... the Xerox
Star. It worked much like this. To print a file you dropped it in the
printer icon, etc... this feature (a cool one) only survives in the Trashcan.

Maybe in browser 3.0... :->.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net      'U`

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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What are menus?
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Date: 15 Jan 89 02:22:10 GMT
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