>The toolbar can be hidden--that's what the oval button on the top right
>is for. Further, in almost every application, it can be customized.
placed in a location which in the previous (and ALL previous) versions
the window sizing widgets were located.
>Further, redundancy is not bad. It gives you a choice of how to do
>things, and has been with the Mac from day one in one form or another.
>Command keys are a redundancy to the menus. Floating tool bars, such
>as in Emailer, are another.
redundancy *may* not be bad - implementation and functionality are 2
prime determinates
key equivelnts are *not* redundancy - as they do not cause to exist, nor
function on different occurances of an object. ex: "command v" does not
bring into existance, nor operate on an item (object) seperate from the
edit menu function 'paste'.
The toolbar does exactly that. It causes to exist a duplicate,
extraneous, object - in most cases using screen 'real estate' to dupliate
an existing function (most often already) in the primary menu bar.
Additionally - there would be no need for a 'toolbar' had apple left the
'Apple menu' alone. As it provided EXACTLY this functionality - a user
customizable menu - that DOES NOT take screen 'real estate', and can
house any number of functions - most of which *would not* duplicate other
existing functionality. again ex: the 'view' button object for the tool
bar duplicates - inexactly - the primary menubar functionality of the
view menu, as the menu bar functionality is greater (various options for
sorting, and icon size etc) than the toolbar button.
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will will disable us from descerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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