Re: App menu Help/About consistency

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Yeah, sorry, I meant that *Documents* is a single-window app. Completely misspoke.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko gmail com> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gmail com> wrote:
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> בתאריך ב', נוב 25, 2013 בשעה 6:03 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
> <jstpierre mecheye net> כתב:
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>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
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>>> Pierre-Yves Luyten <py luyten fr> wrote:
>>> >> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/HIG/ApplicationMenus
>>> >
>>> > Could this document be extended to cover the switch between the
>>> > different views?
>>> > See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697591.
>>>
>>> One of the goals for the new HIG is to try and avoiding spoon-feeding
>>> people too much, and I'd prefer to avoid listing every possible thing
>>> you might want to include in that menu. In that sense, this bug is an
>>> interesting test case for the guidelines.
>>>
>>> In general I would say that they indicate that those items shouldn't
>>> be in the app menu, since they "are specific to a particular window or
>>> view", but I'd be interested to hear how other people would interpret
>>> this based on the draft guidelines, and whether they consider them to
>>> be useful enough.
>>>
>>
>> Nautilus is a single-window app, so window-global is also app-global. The
>> guidelines are meaningless in this sense...
>>
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> I not think nautilus is a single-window app.
> In the app-menu have an item 'New Window' to open
> more than one window.

Also, if you insert a USB drive, and click in the gnome-shell dialog
to open it with Files, it opens in a new window by default. So GNOME
itself as a system treats Files as a multiple-window application.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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  Jasper