Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: component selection from menus was Re: [evolution-patches] 57653 & 57654 : toolbar and sidebar visibility

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Hi guys,

JPR asked me to look at 

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55375

And this patch does just that.

Any objections?  I'm fairly happy with it as is, apart from some minor things (like g_utf8_get_char("-") rahter than just '-'.

 Michael

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:39 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hello Anna,
>
> Anna M Dirks wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:12 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> >>I'm not sure putting them in a submenu is the way to go.  I think they 
> >>should be in one of the toplevels but I don't have any strong opinions 
> >>on which one.
> > 
> > So given that our UI is *supposed* to be frozen, I would very much like
> > to make as few large changes to the Evo UI as possible. Adding a new
> > toplevel menu is exactly the kind of very large change which I want to
> > stay away from. 
>  >
> > To that end, in keeping with the HIG, these items should be in the
> > "View" menu. The HIG goes as far as to stipulate that every app with a
> > toolbar should have a "Toolbar" menuitem, placed *in* the View menu. To
> > put it anywhere else would be to make ourselves inconsistent with the
> > rest of GNOME.
>
> Ok.  I'm not sure what the toolbar toggle has to do with this exactly 
> except that the component buttons are certainly a type of toolbar. 
> Therefore, they should have equivalent menu items.
>
> I have updated the patch to move these items to the View menu.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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