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From: invalid.address at do.not.email (guppy)
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:25:44 GMT
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Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should
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References: <370c7a2d.35857749@news.bctel.ca> <1288614834-78399188@hypernet.com> <F9uyHM.AD@rempt.xs4all.nl>
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Message-ID: <37111e88.2387062@news.bctel.ca>
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X-UID: 1678
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:39:21 GMT, boud at rempt.xs4all.nl wrote:
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>Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:
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>:
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>: There's even a difference between exiting from the file menu and
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>: closing from the title bar.
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>: When's the last time you closed a GUI from the file menu??
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>: Sheesh.
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>That rings a bell - it also occurred in the last version of Oracle
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>Forms 4.5 I had the misfortune to work with. Worse, closing the app
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>with alt-spacebar (for the system menu) would hang the whole of
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>Windows.
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Gahd. Yet another way to do it. The guy at Mackido (dunno the URL
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offhand) documents twenty-odd other ways to close an app.
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Macintosh has three or four.
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One can develop quite a significant despisal of Windows when one starts
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realizing just how lousy an interface it has...
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--
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MSpeak: in-no-va-tion, n. 1. extending or modifying
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existing standards in undocumented ways. 2. creating
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new, undocumented standards. --de-com-mod-it-ize, v.
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