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Article #13Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
From: Radford Neal
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1985 22:38
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1985 22:38
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> >The idea of clicking on a menu item causing an action in itself, without
> >a subsequent selection, is TERRIBLE.
> >
> >The present interface makes "browsing" through menus a very desirable
> >activity...
> The idea of having a special symbol to show that a menu item will bring
> up a sub-menu is a good one. Why not extend it to the menu bar...
>
> Martin Taylor
> {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
> {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt
Something like this *might* make clicking on the "menu" name acceptable. Putting
"..." after all existing menus could be a problem though (for one thing, they might
not fit any more). It also would look ugly.
Given that we're retrofitting this, it might be better to put a special symbol after
those menu names which *don't* have menus. Unfortunately, nobody is going to know
what it means at first.
I'm still not convinced it's worth it, at this stage at least.
Radford Neal
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calgary.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!alberta!calgary!radford From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL Message-ID: <464@calgary.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:38:14 EDT Article-I.D.: calgary.464 Posted: Wed Oct 16 18:38:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 08:03:27 EDT References: <3281@nsc.UUCP> <5387@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1701@dciem.UUCP> <445@calgary.UUCP> <1713@dciem.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Lines: 25