Re: What are menus?

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From: Sean Casey
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 22:00

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In article <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
[regarding pull-down menus]
>>They represent Postit(tm) notes stuck on your rolltop desk.
>Pull down menu's represent ... control knob type things on mechanical
>devices????

No, pull down menus represent Venetian blinds or pull down maps like
they had in grade school. It's the natural way to make your computer
selections...

Seriously, I'd like to see a more configurable windowing environment.
For example, through the use of a configuration, you could specify
positioning and function of depth gadgets, resizing gadgets, window
activation, scroll bars, etc. Sort of like a flexible window manager
like you can get for X-windows.

Thus, I could emulate a Mac, Sun, Amiga+dmouse, or what-have-you
environments.

Wouldn't that annoy Apple? Give the users the tools to build their own
Mac-like interface if they want. There'd be nothing they could do.

Sean
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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: What are menus?
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Date: 10 Jan 89 22:00:21 GMT
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