Re: GNOME HIG: Feedback Wanted

[Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org>]

Hey Michael,

I think all the gear menu in epiphany needs redesign and rethinking,
this menu are too long.

Also, it can to be shorter if we used menu-as-popover, so the sub-menu
are hidding.

Regards,
Yosef Or Boczko

בתאריך ה', אוג 28, 2014 בשעה 1:28 AM, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro gnome org> כתב:
> Another question. On the header bar menus page:
>
> "Header bar menus are not a good choice for performing actions on
> selected content: when content hasn't been selected, the menu will
> contain unhelpful insensitive menu items, when it has been selected,
> possible actions will not be advertised."
>
> This makes me think that it would be good to remove the
> Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste items from the header bar menu in Epiphany,
> since they'll usually be disabled, and they're more accessible 
> through a
> context menu or a keyboard shortcut.
>
> You then say: "Selection mode or popovers are a better choice for this
> situation." Which makes me think, oops, maybe you weren't talking 
> about
> selecting text in a text field after all.
>
> So I'm not quite sure how this guideline applies to me, or if anything
> needs to be clarified here. Maybe these specific menu items are common
> enough they could be addressed directly.
>
> Michael
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