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Nick Lockwood (nicklockwood@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:53:57 JST Nick Lockwood
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@thanius @steveriggins you say this like Windows had a context menu at the time and Apple decided not to copy it (Windows didn't exist at the time to be copied).

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  Steve is ready for Xmas (steveriggins@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 14:19:34 JST Steve is ready for Xmas
  
  Hidden UI in the macOS design language can go straight to hell.
  The fact it hides this button is just so damned infuriating.
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  Steve is ready for Xmas (steveriggins@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:59:04 JST Steve is ready for Xmas
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  @thanius While it was an odd UI decision, the File menu did include Eject (Command-E)
  
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  Steve is ready for Xmas (steveriggins@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 15:59:05 JST Steve is ready for Xmas
  - Tobias Hellgren
  @thanius That was a decision since 1984, when the original Mac had one mouse button, to keep the system simple as no consumers were familiar with graphical user interfaces. As for the the trash can, that was indeed an odd decision.
  
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  Nick Lockwood (nicklockwood@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 16:53:57 JST Nick Lockwood
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  @thanius @steveriggins oh, huh. Apparently the Xerox Alto had them - I stand corrected 😅 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu
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    Context menu
    
    A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which the menu belongs. Usually the available choices are actions related to the selected object. From a technical point of view, such a context menu is a graphical control element. History Context menus first appeared in the Smalltalk environment on the Xerox Alto computer, where they were called pop-up menus; they were invented by Dan Ingalls in the mid-1970s.Microsoft Office v3.0 introduced the context menu for copy and paste functionality in 1990. Borland demonstrated extensive use of the context menu in 1991 at the Second Paradox Conference in Phoenix Arizona. Lotus 1-2-3/G for OS/2 v1.0 added additional formatting options in 1991. Borland Quattro Pro for Windows v1.0 introduced the Properties context menu option in 1992. ...

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