On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:59 am, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Simplest answer I've come across - scroll bars on the menu. Leaves the
> ordering of entries alone, work on any size screen over miniscule and
> when no scrollbar is needed you don't draw it.
>
> My experience is that attempting to change the order of menu entries
> based on some heuristic is likely to get very annoying; one of the
> reasons short menus are good is that we get 'muscle menory' and can use
> them fast. Long menus are in general a bad thing but I conceded they are
> the least awful available UI for some choosing operations.
>

I'd second this... ok, I do second this. One of the things on my "Most 
annoying features of M$ products" list is menu items that change based on 
usage. 

> tim
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