Re: Heirarchical Apple Menu?

[jjklein@clark.net (Joseph Klein Annapolis)]

Paul Schultz  <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> wrote:
>One thing I think is convenient on the Mac is the heirarchical
>sub-menus under the Apple menu. (giving access to control panels,
>etc.)

Little history lesson:

When Apple developed System 6.0 for the IIGS, Apple deemed heirarchial
menus non-user friendly.  A few years later when Mac System 7.5 came out,
Apple decided that heirarchial menus were useful enough to be included in
the System Software.  Apple had quit development for the IIGS at this
point so Apple never got around to building heirarchial menu support with
the toolbox, Finder, and the rest of the system software.  

Nobody as far as I know has written a new control panels NDA or patched
the current one to emulate Mac System 7.5.  With fewer and fewer people
having time and interest in writing IIGS software, I'll doubt this ever
will be written.

I found that owning an accelerator and a _fast_ hard drive improves the
time with opening the control panels window.  I have no complaints with
the time it takes to open the control panels window on my system, even
though it is an extra mouse click to open an individual control panel.

Geoff