[UI] Squeak's Menus Are Excellent (was: Re: [UI] Squeak's Menus Are Awful)

[Chris Muller]

Squeak's menus are anything but "awful."  Specifically, they support
the keyboard and not just a modifier+hot-key (a la MS Windows menus).
The usefulness of this is especially evidenced with
World>>open...>>file...  Just type away instead of "hunt-and-click".

Squeak menus entry's can be tacked in place, and even invdividual menu
items can be torn off (use the duplicate halo) and placed anywhere on
the desktop or on a flap; thus building-up your own little custom IDE.
 They can even be turned sideways for special cases.

Your complaint seemed pretty insignificant to me, so I felt the
subject language of this thread was more than overly critical; more
like plain wrong.


On 9/13/07, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com> wrote:
> Specifically, they open to the right of the mouse.  If you open a
> menu, don't move the mouse, and click, you will pick up the menu with
> the hand.  This happens to me - oh - about 50% of the time.  Either
> open the menu under the mouse, or make it so I can't pick it up
> except with the title bar.
>
> Just did this for the nth time today and had to vent.
>
> -Todd Blanchard
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