> On 2023-01-18, at 10:37 AM, Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     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.

I love Spotlight. Our dock search does a pretty good job of providing that within Squeak, though I'm sure we could do more (one example - I hate how it takes an exact match as a reason to open a message list on only that match instead of the list of matches).

But a counter to search-as-interface is that we don't always know a priori what is available, and a well done menu type UI can provide that info. I want both. It's kind of what I was thinking of when I mentioned expanding the menuitem search to work down menu trees (I did mention that, right?)

Also, *having* to type anything is not always convenient. There's a lot of UI that simply doesn't involve keyboards.

tim
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