Re: Revisiting App Menu

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Carl Thompson wrote:

> 
> 
> On 8 Jul 1998, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Carl Thompson writes:
> >  > On 8 Jul 1998, Preben Randhol wrote:
> >  > >  ---------------------
> >  > >  | Gnome  File  Help |
> >  > >  -|-----|-------------
> >  > >   |     --------
> >  > >   |Preferences |
> >  > >   |About       | 
> >  > >   |Exit        |
> >  > >   |------------|
> >  > 
> >  > 1. New converts aren't going to know to look under the Gnome menu to exit
> >  >    the program.  I think the extra menu will throw some people off.
> > 
> > <shrug>.  For the past fifteen years, every menuing system has had the 
> > "exit" or "quit" command at the bottom of the leftmost menu.  It's not 
> > like it's a new concept.
> 
> For the past fifteen years, if there was a "file" menu, it was the leftmost
> menu...

	Not true.  Look at BeOS, look at MacOS...  Hey, look at some
Windows programs.  :^)  This is MOSTLY standard, but not always...

						-Ben

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