Tim writes:

 > It's all a bit of a mess right now and this may be a perfect excuse
 > for you to improve it ;-)

      I've come to prefer local search engines like Spotlight to both 
menubars and pop-up menus. Or rather, I prefer a pop-up menu which 
begins as a simple input field, and only shows choosable items after 
I've typed something.

      We have a large diversity of preferences as to what should go in a 
world menu. At this point, I think we'd be better off with a search 
engine that, with use, shows what we're likely to mean from the first 
few characters. I already type something to filter the current world 
menu, usually.

      For newcomers, we could decorate a search engine input field with 
a single instruction: "Type a question mark to see some popular 
choices."  That could give an initial set of choices similar to the 
current world menu. The choices can be simple items, nested menus, etc.


-C

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