johnr@runx.ips.oz (John Rotenstein) (01/30/88)
[Daily Organiser -- a hierarchical joke]
If you've seen some of the new-generation applications, you should have
noticed the usage of hierarchical and pop-up menus.
Quite frankly, some applications use them to extremes, resulting in an
interface not much better than before.
Let's just hope that developers don't go as far as this...
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John Rotenstein ACSnet: johnr@runx.ips.oz
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