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Article #14Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
From: Steven B. Munson
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1985 17:00
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1985 17:00
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In article <1713@dciem.UUCP>, mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
> .... Consistency demands that the items on the menu bar be treated
> like any other menu items.
The menu bar is not a "menu", it is a "menu bar". It contains
"menus", not "menu items". If something on the menu bar does something
besides pop up a menu, like save a document for instance, then the poor
fellow that pops up the wrong menu and runs the mouse across the menu bar
to the right menu might cause something to happen that he didn't want.
Active items in the menu bar are unforgiving, not the kind of interface for
"the rest of us."
Steve Munson
sbm@Purdue.EDU
sbm@Purdue.CSNET
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site arthur Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!mordred!arthur!sbm From: sbm@arthur (Steven B. Munson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL Message-ID: <1052@arthur> Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 13:00:43 EDT Article-I.D.: arthur.1052 Posted: Wed Oct 16 13:00:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 04:40:29 EDT References: <3281@nsc.UUCP> <5387@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1701@dciem.UUCP> <1713@dciem.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 15 Summary: NO, NO, NO!