UI issues

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Dec 26 15:17:36 UTC 2004


On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:13:28PM -0800, Michael Latta wrote:
> 
> Right.  Unless you have the menu bar at the very top or sides of a 
> small screen, they are more harm than good.  The smalltalk approach of 
> menus where the mouse is, are far better.  Calling the mouse buttons by 
> colors however is a pain (since we do not have Alto mice with really 
> colored buttons).

Perhaps some entrepreneurial sort of person could produce a cute
little Squeaky The Mouse accessory that looks like the mouse on wheels
at Squeakland, and has properly colored mouse buttons arranged across
its hindquarters.

Dave




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