Tim Rowledge schrieb:
> It's real simple. I have a menu bar on my mouse. It's called 'the
> middle button'. It's always very close and pretty much unmissable so it
> has a fabulous Fitz's Law figure of merit. It follows my point of
> attention around, even across multiple monitors. How anyone could fail
> to see the advantage over a screen-top menubar graphic I cannot imagine.

How about popup menus being a hidden feature and that context is not 
always clear?
In extreme you could have a different popup menu for every single 
location on the screen, but you'll never know until you tried.
In lack of a better example for unclear context take a (large) list of 
items. Some items are selected and you popup a menu over an unselected 
item. Now should the menu for the list, the selected items or the 
unselected item under the cursor popup (or even worse a combined menu 
for the list and selected items)?

I can't imagine how anyone could think that there is only one truth. 
Screen-top menubars have their problems, but popup menus aren't 42 either.

Alex