Re: Menu UI issues

["J. Patrick Narkinsky" <patrick amphigory tez net>]

On 11 Feb 1998, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Okay, the way menus currently work is you have the menu bar at the top
> of the application.  A user can click in that bar and that brings up a
> menu.  But why can't the menu bar itself be a menu?  Assign a popup
> menu to the right-hand button which has the contents of the menu bar.
> if the user pins it into the window, then it acts like a menu bar, and
> one of the items on that menu gets assigned to the right button.  They
> can also pin other menus that get popped up from the menu bar.
> 

This sounds like a good way to do it to me.  I've always been rather fond
of the "Click anywhere for a menu" approach; this would give me my wish :)

Patrick

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