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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder
Summary: However...
Keywords: System 7.0
Message-ID: <458@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 89 22:51:32 GMT
References: <2276@sol.oakhill.UUCP> <474@gistdev.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <474@gistdev.UUCP> joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) writes:
>In article <2276@sol.oakhill.UUCP> joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky) writes:
>> In article <1342@esquire.UUCP> uunet!esquire!yost (David A. Yost) writes:
>> > I think the list of active apps should not be
>> > on the apple menu, but in a pulldown menu
>> > under the tiny Current App icon on the right
>> > of the menu bar [ ... ]
>>
>> I like this solution.
>
>I do, too.  The Apple menu is cluttered enough as it is now, not counting the
>new "Set Aside" feature.  Giving the applications their own menu makes good
>sense, and having the application small icon be the menu name is logical,
>though having an "Applications" menu (or something) would be quite acceptable
>as well.

I think that this is a TERRIFFIC idea!  The little icon would seem to be the perfect
place for such a menu.  How about this, then:  you move the mouse onto that icon,
and the application menu "falls" down (i.e. no click), and you can choose.  Or, if
you click the icon, it switches as before.
I disagree on the idea of a seperate "Applications" menu, however.  For those of
us with the original Mac screen, there just isn't room if you're running something
like Word 4.0 or SuperPaint.  I think the icon would be better due to its size, and
due to the fact that it's already there, i.e. you don't have to add anything...

--Mike

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