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

[David Mitchell]

Would like the same type on menu behavior on all list boxes (not just
pop-up menus).

On 9/18/07, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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