Re: App menu Help/About consistency

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hey Michael!

Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> Many of our apps put Help above About in the app menu, but many put
> About above Help.  Many of the About labels are "About <app name>", but
> many omit the app name. Many place a separator between Help/About
> (whichever is last) and Quit, but many don't.

You're not the first to ask that question... ;)

> Can we define a proper way of handling these standard elements? Every
> detail matters....

Sure, that's what I've been working to do with the new HIG, which has
a page on application menus [1].

I don't have a massively strong opinion on the label used for the
about item, or how help/about/quit should be grouped. I just went with
what feels right to me. Discussion is welcome, and all that.

Allan

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/HIG/ApplicationMenus